From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Mar 14 16:15:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA21796 for smp-outgoing; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:15:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gbdata.com (USR1-1.detnet.com [207.113.12.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA21788 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:15:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA05823; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 18:15:20 -0600 (CST) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199703150015.SAA05823@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Re: AMD K5 Pentium Equivalents To: donegan@quick.net (Steven P. Donegan) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 18:15:20 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Steven P. Donegan" at "Mar 14, 97 03:01:07 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steven P. Donegan wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had any experience running the AMD K5 pentium > equivalents in an SMP motherboard (specifically the Tyan 1563D). The chip > price is such that I can buy 2 of the AMD's at 133 for less than 2 100's > from Intel. The motherboard in question is running great with the current > SMP release, 2x75mhz pentiums and 128M of EDO RAM. You can run only Intel chips in FreeBSD SMP due to the fact that the others (Cyrix and AMD) use a different standard for PIC usage. (Please correct if I'm wrong on this) > > TIA > > Steven P. Donegan donegan@quick.net > Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii