From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 11 10:09:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA03371 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:09:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA03356 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id LAA02483; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:08:46 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199704111708.LAA02483@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: AMD 586 CPU To: toneil@visigenic.com (Tim Oneil) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:08:45 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970410140203.00a80ae0@visigenic.com> from "Tim Oneil" at Apr 10, 97 02:02:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Recently I opined: % I've not used any 5x86s, but now have 3 machines running on K5s and feel % the performance is quite good. The K5/133 outperforms the P5/133 in % everything we've tried under FreeBSD, and is a fair bit cheaper. YMMV. In response, Tim asked: > Wes, anyone: I've cruised sysdoc.pair.com and the amd home page, and I'm > really haven't gotten a deffinitive answer to this: will the K5 work > in dual cpu mode? I've been told by someone associated with FreeBSD-SMP that they won't, but I don't remember who it was. Sigh. (I can buy two K5/133s and a dual-CPU motherboard for less than one P5/166 and an equivalent single-cpu motherboard.) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com