Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 21:08:14 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: James Snow <sno@teardrop.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual K6 Message-ID: <372BCFAE.6B0AD09C@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.990501204105.11042B-100000@dsinw.com>
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James' letter got me curious and I went to AMD's web pages. They claim the AMD-K7 will superscalar pipelined, and have a bus capable of scaleable multiprocessing. See http://www.amd.com/news/prodpr/9882.html Kent rick hamell wrote: > > > I heard that FreeBSD isn't very happy running on dual K6s. Was wondering > > if anyone had any first-hand experience with that? > > > > I'll be aquiring a dual socket-7 board with a pair of P133s and was > > thinking of upgrading the CPUs and I hadn't tried any AMD processors yet. > > AMD chips are not able to do SMP. It's a limitation of the chip > itself. You'll have to go with Intel to do dual anything. If AMD chips > could run this way, FreeBSD would be able to support them with few if any > problems. > > Rick > > ---- "Religion exists because man can't belive that he's nothing more > then a random accident." > > http://www.grendal.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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