From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 8 21:58:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA16563 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 21:58:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from onyx.atipa.com (user5248@ns.atipa.com [208.128.22.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA16557 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 21:58:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 1018); 9 Nov 1997 06:04:18 -0000 Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 23:04:18 -0700 (MST) From: Atipa X-Sender: freebsd@dot.ishiboo.com To: Charles Mott cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IDT processors? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > also have shell accounts). > > This could be bad for Intel. I think that there is a limited > subset of Pentium owners which now have a *very* strong incentive > to obtain replacement chips or go to alternate vendors (AMD or > IDT). > > P.S. Have any FreeBSD users tried out the new IDT chip? What/Who is IDT? I heard about some So. CA startup company using the SGS/Thompson Fab. Is that them? I really doubt the contingent that is affected by this bug would be likely to trust a no-name chip. The whole point is reliability... I would not put mission critial servers on AMD K6 or any Cyrix. There is no vestal virgin in the X86 market. Intel is still the best of the bunch for reliability. Kevin