Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:56:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Tony Kimball <Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM> Cc: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net, toj@gorilla.net, freebsd-hardware@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: supermicro p6sns/p6sas Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970929104951.4215A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199709291505.KAA25150@compound.east.sun.com>
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On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Tony Kimball wrote: ... > : I'm little dubious about how well AMD > : can make it work. K6, due to bugs, was unable to run FreeBSD reliably up > : until a few weeks ago (see archives about which stepping are known to > : work, and which are not). > > And we all know that Intel has had no major Pentium or PPro bugs? Nothing that affected FreeBSD anyhow, and FreeBSD uses a wide variety of features. > (BIG smiley face on that one.) Frankly I don't see any reasonable > argument to the effect that AMD or Cyrix are less technically > competent than Intel -- quite the contrary, given track records (and > the fact that the AMD/Cyrix task is much more difficult than the > Intel task). Intel's real competition is not AMD and Cyrix, but DEC, Sparc (Sun), MIPS (SGI), and Motorola/IBM. > : Also, you can use socket 8 processors in a slot 1 with an adapter. > > Where can I learn about this? I'm not sure. I've seen pictures of it, and the PII motherboards I've seen have instructions for installing and using the socket 8 -> slot 1 adapter. Tom
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