From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Apr 7 12:24:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA03753 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:24:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03728 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:23:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id OAA07577; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 14:16:17 -0500 Received: from dave(192.2.2.6) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma007573; Mon Apr 7 15:16:10 1997 Message-ID: <334947FA.306D@persprog.com> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 15:16:10 -0400 From: Dave Alderman Reply-To: dave@persprog.com Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Roome CC: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentuim or Pentuim Pro ? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stephen Roome wrote: > > I've just talked to a friend here though who reminded be about > the AMD K6, that will (apparently) be socket 7 (pentium board compatible). > So... Is it worth going for a pentium board especially if the K6 is going > to be all it's hyped up to be or not ? (assuming it comes out soon) > The AMD K6 was released on April 2. You can order it now (at least in the 200 Mhz version). I know of one chip dealer that is offering it now. Does anyone know if this CPU has multiprocessor support? -- David W. Alderman dave@persprog.com