Nate Straz <nate at techie.com> wrote: > > SGI Origin/Onyx 3000 machines are built from "bricks." There are > several types of bricks that make up a system. [snip] > P PCI brick, include (I think) 6 PCI buses with 2 slots each That's cool.. Anyone know of PC motherboards that split off and have several PCI buses? It'd be great to stick slower devices on one bus (ISA bus, USB, etc), then faster bits on another (Ethernet, FireWire, IDE and/or SCSI). I guess Apple does something like this on some of their machines (my brother's PowerBook, at least). Then again, maybe there isn't much of an advantage to that.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Linux: The choice of a GNU / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Generation \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011129/68de67d9/attachment.pgp