In message <Pine.NEB.4.33.0112240850370.1990-100000@chylonia.3miasto.net>, Wojc
>VIA chipsets have ISA (no matter onboard or with slots) handling
>completely broken. 1/2 of sound cards, 3/4 of multiserial cards doesn't
>work.

Not surprising.  This was a built-in serial port.

>> * The Abit VP6 says it supports ECC, but it doesn't.  VIA chipset.

>VIA doesn't say. it's Abit's lie

Abit's specs imply that they copied the whole segment from VIA docs.

>anyway Intel CPU's are faster in terms of bus throughput. which is often
>more important in unix.

I haven't got any useful benchmarks to compare with, yet.  In practice, I
haven't had a machine not be fast enough in years; speed isn't a big issue
for me.  Stability is.

-s