From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 6 8:30:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from evil.2y.net (ztown2-2-178.adsl.one.net [216.23.15.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B5CD37BCD1 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 08:30:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cokane@evil.2y.net) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by evil.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA17434; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:38:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:38:18 -0400 From: Coleman Kane To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: Mike Harding , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 Message-ID: <20000706113818.A17417@cokane.yi.org> References: <14690.56083.871132.718345@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br> <14690.56083.871132.718345@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br> <20000705123740.05979E6EF7@netcom1.netcom.com> <4.3.2.20000705202256.00ba04d0@207.227.119.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000705202256.00ba04d0@207.227.119.2>; from jeff-ml@mountin.net on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:35:57PM -0400 X-Vim: vim:tw=70:ts=4:sw=4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG But I thought the P!!! really did make the internet come alive. :) Jeffrey J. Mountin had the audacity to say: > At 05:37 AM 7/5/00 -0700, Mike Harding wrote: > > >Yeah, but does AMD have disco-dancing clean-room technicians and > >animated sock monkeys? Does AMD "improve your internet experience" > >with "brighter colors?" > > The past 2 years Intel has been terrible with the BS it pushes on the > mostly ignorant consumer. Have been rooting for AMD since the K7/Athalon > was in design. Intel's recent problems and refusal of supporting PC133 and > DDRSDRAM to push (or should I say ram) RAMBUS on everyone.. No need to > rant, but AMD has come a long way. My next personal system will be a dual > AMD. The capability is due later this year. With their greatly improved > production capacity Intel best look out, since they will then be able to > start in on the mid-range server market. > > They only question then is SMP support for AMD system. > > >Sorry about the OT, but these ads have bugged me for years. :) > > Intel's policies have PO'd me for ages now, so pardon my OT rant. > > Intel Inside^H^H^H^H^H^HElsewhere. > > > Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net > Systems/Network Administrator > FreeBSD - the power to serve > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message