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Date:      Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:58:00 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>
To:        pahowes@fair-ware.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors
Message-ID:  <20010830175800R.jkh@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <ABENJKDFOLCKBPLGACFDAECODDAA.pahowes@fair-ware.com>
References:  <ABENJKDFOLCKBPLGACFDAECODDAA.pahowes@fair-ware.com>

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I don't know where you heard this from, but you heard entirely wrong.
FreeBSD has always worked very well on AMD and Intel processors.  My
personal machine has been a K7/900 for a long time now (Slot-A even)

- Jordan

From: "Paul A. Howes" <pahowes@fair-ware.com>
Subject: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:35:05 -0400

> All-
> 
> In the past, I had heard that Linux and FreeBSD didn't work well on the
> Athlon processors.  Have all of the issues since been resolved?  Now that
> Tyan has the TigerMP motherboard out for around $200, and the 1.2 GHz Athlon
> MP chips are around $160, building a multiprocessor system is looking like a
> better and better idea.  However, I wanted to first make sure that there are
> no problems that I should be aware of.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Paul A. Howes
> pahowes@fair-ware.com
> 
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> 
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