From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 27 03:09:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA25474 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 03:09:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA25454; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 03:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id TAA00515; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 19:39:10 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707271009.TAA00515@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: AMD K6: does it work well with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <8790ytk2qn.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> from Peter Mutsaers at "Jul 26, 97 09:55:12 pm" To: plm@xs4all.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 19:39:09 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter Mutsaers stands accused of saying: > The AMD K6 is supposedly as fast as or faster as the Intel Pentium MMX > CPU's. (Both for integer and for FPU?). So I'm thinking of buying > one. Does anyone have positive experience with it and FreeBSD? On the contrary, at the moment there are lots of negative experiences with it going around. I would avoid the K6 in the short term, as current parts appear to have either a thermal problem or a basic bug. Check the -hackers mailing list archive for more details on this. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[