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On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Alex Buell wrote: >> Just gloating for a sec here, but my new AMD K6 300 is cranking out a mere >> 599 BogoMips. :) Quite an improvement over the old '486 33MHz that crawled >> at 16+ ... > >Yes, but they still haven't done a SMP system. IMHO they should get off >their butts and design their own SMP system (which Linux could support by >adding AMD specific code) that should be superior to that of Intel's >(which still doesn't scale to more than 4 Intel processors unfortunately) >SMP solution. I'd definitely buy into that. Correct me if I'm wrong >though. AMD *HAS* multiprocessor support. The problem is that it is not the same as Intel's, but I believe is backwards compatible (can take intel chips). Problem: no motherboard vendors have created boards with the AMD SMP solution... Maybe this will change with the new K6 chips or even K7 SLOT-A boards. -- Mike A. Harris - Computer Consultant - Linux advocate Escape from the confines of Microsoft's operating systems and push your PC to it's limits with LINUX - a real OS. http://www.redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/faq.html | ||||||||||||
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