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Date:      Wed, 14 May 1997 19:30:54 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
Cc:        "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: K6 & smp
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970514192656.23029A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970514104031.7534A-100000@Journey2.mat.net>

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On Wed, 14 May 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Wed, 14 May 1997, Randy A. Katz wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know if the K6 is fully smp compatible? Please respond, I want
> > to buy some but I don't want to have to bring them back...
> 
> Absolutely NOT!  For reasons that have recently been beaten to death on 
> this list, no chips but Intel's will do smp.

Grrr.... 

No chips but intels can do smp on the *current point of time*. The others
(AMD and Cyrix) require you to have a chipset with OpenPIC support for
SMP. No SMP OpenPIC boards have been announced yet.

	Sander

> 
> > 
> > Thanx,
> > Randy Katz
> > 
> > 
> 
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