From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 19 11:25:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA28934 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:25:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.san.rr.com (mail-atm.san.rr.com [204.210.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA28916 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dt5h1n61.san.rr.com (dt5h1n61.san.rr.com [204.210.31.97]) by mail.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA22327; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:23:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709191823.LAA22327@mail.san.rr.com> From: "Studded" To: "Brian Tao" Cc: "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Fri, 19 Sep 97 11:23:36 -0700 Reply-To: "Studded" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: SMP motherboard advice... Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:24:59 -0400 (EDT), Brian Tao wrote: >BTW, I heard that the AMD K6's can do SMP now... fact or fiction? According to the AMD tech that I talked to, the cpu is capable of being used in an SMP configuration, however there are currently no motherboards that support it. The problem is the standard that the chips need to communicate between themselves (I don't remember the name of the thing, I think it was a four-letter acronym). Intel uses one standard, AMD gambled on a competing standard and lost when no mb manufacturers made chips that support it. The person I talked to said that there are negotiations for a mb manufacturer to provide these motherboards (probably gigabyte based on what I heard from other sources), but there are no concrete plans at this time. Hope this helps, Doug PS, I was disappointed too Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life. -Shakespeare, "Henry V"