From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 14:00:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12794 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from persprog.com (root@persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12787 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:00:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id PAA18647; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:56:04 -0500 Received: from dave.ppi.com(192.2.2.6) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma018632; Tue Jul 29 16:55:48 1997 Message-ID: <33DE58C6.30B40448@persprog.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:55:34 -0400 From: Dave Alderman Reply-To: dave@persprog.com Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Roth CC: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <33DE4BD6.C3943B59@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Roth wrote: > > I am planing to upgrade my system to an ASUS TX97 board with an AMD K6 > processor. I know that some operating systems have had problems with > the K6 chip. If anyone knows whether FreeBSD has any problems with the > K6 please email me at miker@acm.org . > thank you This is fascinating to me. Are Jaz drives acceptable for running BSD? If so, I will run some make world tests with 2.2.2 and FreeBSD on my K6 machine which is currently allocated to running an EOS. BTW, Jordan, the newsletter was very cool. Great idea! Note: "EOS" stands for "Evil Operating System". I'll let you guess which one. -- FreeBSD may have a daemon, but the Devil works for Microsoft. -- Anon. David W. Alderman dave@persprog.com