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From(david parsons)
SubjectRe: Linux on AMD K6
Date11 Jul 1997 00:01:23 -0700
In article <linux.kernel.Pine.SUN.3.96.970710124026.23935B-100000@sunrise.byu.edu>,
Karl D. Nelson <nelsonm@sunrise.byu.edu> wrote:
>- Does the AMD K6 have subtle x86 compatibility problems such as have been
>discussed on this list before with the Cyrix chips?

   Not ones that I noticed running computational chemistry jobs on it under
   Linux.   If Intel wasn't firesaling 80521/150s (at about 55% of the 
   price of a K6/166 these days) I'd be stocking up on them and retiring
   a lot of my K5 processors.


>- AMD compares the K6 to the PPro but the chip sits in a P5 socket.  Does
>this limit its truly functioning as a PPro clone?

   It's within 5% of the speed of a similarly clocked 80521 -- the only
   place where it does not perform nearly as well is the floating point,
   which is a place where AMD and Cyrix have (rightly) decided that it's
   not worth the trouble to tune, because almost nobody uses floating
   point.

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   david parsons \bi/ The K6 works fine, if you're not doing computational
                  \/                                            chemistry.
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