From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 9:15:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from silver.teardrop.net (silver.teardrop.net [216.155.28.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7763415043 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 09:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sno@teardrop.org) Received: from localhost (sno@localhost) by silver.teardrop.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id MAA75296; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:15:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from sno@teardrop.org) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:15:18 -0400 (EDT) From: James Snow X-Sender: sno@silver.teardrop.net To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual K6 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 May 1999, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > The problem lies in the fact that the K6 implements OPIC verses Intel's > APIC protocol, so you'd need both a motherboard and an OS that did OPIC. > I haven't seen an motherboard that implements OPIC, so OS support is > probably a moot point. Pardon my ignorance here, but what are OPIC and APIC? I'm experiencing that 'new word' phenomena where you hear it once, and then here it several dozen more times in the next few days. -sno o - - - - - - - - - - - - - o - - - - - - - - - - - - o | We live in the short term | sno at teardrop dot org | | and hope for the best. | I am Geek. Hear me ^G | o - - - - - - - - - - - - - o - - - - - - - - - - - - o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message