From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 10 9:54:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E807C37B401; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6AGgCx34740; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:42:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200107101642.f6AGgCx34740@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: nathan@vidican.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon MP / AMD 760MP Chipset (Athlon SMP question) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:39:31 PDT." <3B4B21B3.26B76804@mindspring.com> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:42:12 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG terry tumbled, > but the motherboards are "jumbo sized", and take a strange > power connector, so you can only get the power supply from > one vendor (so far). two, actually. > Instead, AMD implemented the Intel APIC specification; > I'm not sure if they did it by licensing the patent > (Intel had a patent on the APIC design), or if it's > just been long enough for it to come off patent The Athlon uses the Alpha's ev6 spec, not the intel spec. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message