Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:08:45 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: toneil@visigenic.com (Tim Oneil) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD 586 CPU Message-ID: <199704111708.LAA02483@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970410140203.00a80ae0@visigenic.com> from "Tim Oneil" at Apr 10, 97 02:02:05 pm
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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
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