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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: i486 with ETEQ and MRBIOS
Message-ID: <132@omen.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 91 12:49:13 GMT
References: <188@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl> <1093@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> <4906@gumby.Altos.COM>
Organization: Omen Technology INC
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In article <4906@gumby.Altos.COM> jerry@altos.COM (Jerry Gardner) writes:
-In article <1093@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries) writes:
->Well, the title says it all, does anyone have experience or
->information regarding the ETEQ chip set or MRBIOS? I'm 
->interested in running sysV 4.0 on such a board.
->Thanks.

I'm running SCO ODT on a "Smart E-TEQ 486 Mainboard" with 256k
cache and 16MB of RAM (1 MB simms).  It runs twice as fast as a
386/33 on the integer benchamrks I've tried.  The first sample
had something wrong with the I/O bus, which made initilizing the
A floppy drive iffy.  The second sample has not evidenced any
problems in its first 24 hours of Unix.

A more complete definition of the BIOS parameters would be welcome.

A 50 MHz "Ice Cap" board caused Unix to panic when attempting to
run 286 programs or DOS emulators.