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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 22:41:10 -0500
From: Tom Jackson <toj@gorilla.net>
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Subject: Re: supermicro p6sns/p6sas
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On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 03:08:05PM -0500, Tony Kimball wrote:
> Quoth Tom Jackson on Fri, 26 September:
> : Considering a new atx mb myself. Trying to decide between pent pro and
> : pent II. Wondering if socket 8 is a deadend and if intel will upgrade
> : this architexture ( think its much better than pent II)
> 
> Socket 8 is a dead end.  Slot 1 is also a dead end.  Socket 7, on the
> otherhand, shows no sign of slowing down, with AMD's 300 MHz K6 being
> the fastest chip announced for it so far.

Ugh, well maybe the announced, not released version, but definitely
not the current releases of K6. Heard about the make world problem and
the Linux problems.