At 4:05 PM -0500 1/12/01, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:59:57PM -0500, Frank wrote:
> > The 8200 is basically identical to the 7200 but a tower form factor
> >   -- they share the same ROM & Gestalt IDs.
>
>Sure, that's pretty much what I figured (same as the distinction
>between 8500 and 7500), but this means that PCI-with-601 isn't a
>totally single-model plague. (Even if they're largely the same,
>this means there're more machines out there than just the 7200s in
>the same boat.)

Actually the 7500 was a 601 machine, but the CPU was on a daughter 
card and 604 upgrades are less than $20.  I'm think most people 
wanting to run NetBSD on a 7500 were happy to do the upgrade rather 
than fight the software issues.


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