Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:49:32 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 Update & AMD Statement Message-ID: <199709291749.AA280885372@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Sep 1997 12:43:35 EDT." <199709271643.MAA17859@sabre.goldsword.com>
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"John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Sep 1997 18:04:53 +0200 Poul-Henning Kamp said:
> >I have a K6/233 here which has by now completed 50 or more make worlds,
> >no complaints.
> >
> >It is marked:
> > AMD-K6-233ANR
> > 3.2V CORE / 3.3V I/O
> > B 9731EJBW
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> This is what I'm told is the important part. The stepping must be 9731 or
> later.
This looks like a date code (when the IC was manufactured), and not
a stepping. If it is a date code, "9731" would be the 31st week of
1997, which is the last week in July.
-- Darryl Okahata
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