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To: Kenny Hanson <khanson@pdspc.com>
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Subject: Re: FW: Can a PII & a P6 coexist ???
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On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Kenny Hanson wrote:

> I stand corrected... first of all, like a dork, I mixed up the P6 and
> P5.  Second, I have 
> now heard of those kinds of adapters.  I think you'd have some timing
> issues but it
> would be kind of interesting to find out eh?  Because of the difference
> in cache speeds
> I think you'd run into some problems.
> 
> Research!  More research before ya open your dang mouth Kenny!!!
> 
> 

Well, I though they used at least slightly different algorithms to keep
the caches coherent? 

	Sander

	There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future -
	all these are just illusions.


> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Kenny Hanson 
> > Sent:	Wednesday, November 05, 1997 11:16 AM
> > To:	FreeBSD Hackers (E-mail)
> > Subject:	RE: Can a PII & a P6 coexist ???
> > 
> > I've never heard of those kinds of adapters... Intel has a pretty
> > tight lock on Slot 1 
> > technology (i.e. against the law to reverse engineer) so I can't
> > imagine that anybody
> > would be able to engineer a socket8 to slot1 adapter.  Of course, I
> > could be wrong :-)
> > 
> > I'm not 100% positive on this, but my guesstimate is no dice.  Slot 1
> > is completely 
> > different than Socket 8 and requires a whole different kind of wiring;
> > different 
> > control lines and data lines to the 440LX (AGP Set).  You'd have to
> > design a whole
> > new chipset to handle the different processors.
> > 
> > 	Kenny Hanson, Senior Research Analyst
> > 	Paragon Development Systems
> > 	Email: 	khanson@pdspc.com
> > 	Web: 	http://www.pdspc.com
> > 	Phone:	(800) 966-6090
> > 	Fax:		(414) 569-5390
> > 
> > 
> > Getting ones hands on a 440LX based MB isn't easy without getting
> > thiose dreaded slot 1's as a "bargain". Most vendors (cleverly)
> > supplies Socket8->Slot1 adapters so...
> > My question is, would a P6 and a PII coexist in a dual CPU Motherboard
> > ??
> > 
> > I know I ask the most stupid questions :)
> > 
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > -=-=-=-
> > Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD
> > Core Team
> >                 Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
> > ..
>