From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Apr 23 01:06:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA15050 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 01:06:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypher.net (black@zen.pratt.edu [205.232.115.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA15045 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 01:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from black@localhost) by cypher.net (8.8.5/8.7.1) id EAA14771; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 04:04:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 04:04:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Black To: Brian Litzinger cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tyan Titan-Pro ATX S1668 no more? or changing? In-Reply-To: <19970423004945.15230@mpress.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk well, given that the PS/2 port and second serial port on my machine don't work, i don't think a recall is out of the question. as for K6, well, it has full MESI cache cohereceny for SMP. whether it will be supported in a P6 board is unlikely since K6 is Pentium pin compatible. On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Brian Litzinger wrote: > I apologize if this in inapproprate for this list. > > I thought potential purchasers of the Tyan S1668 might be > interested in this heresay. > > I stopped by Fry's Electronics in San Jose Wednesday, and tried > to buy a Tyan Titan-Pro ATX S1668 motherboard. > > They was a place in the shelf for them, but there were no S1668s, > S1662s or other of the Tyan high end motherboards. > > Where the boards would have been was a sign saying something along the > lines of: > > We're not out of Tyan [product] just ask for a sales person. > > So I did. He informed me that the people from the head office > had come buy and taken them all. I asked if there were any at > the other stores. > > He wondered off and came back about 5 minutes later. He said he > looked in the computer and there were none in any of the Fry's > stores anywhere, including the new store in Sacramento. > > He then said that Fry's did not expect to get anymore, but to > expect the new version in about a week based on the [I forgot] > chipset, which included support for the new [this and that]. > > Among this and that he included the K6 processor. I was not > aware that the K6 had support for SMP, but then this was just > a sales droid. > > Basically, it would seem new versions of their motherboards are > coming out with a new chipset, and some will support the K6. > > -- > Brian Litzinger > brian@mediacity.com >