From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 9 03:14:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA14820 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 03:14:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA14811 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 03:14:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.8.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id DAA13329; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 03:15:30 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703091115.DAA13329@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Andreas Klemm cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6 [ was Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge ] In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Mar 1997 10:30:29 +0100." <19970309103029.22464@klemm.gtn.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 03:15:30 -0800 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Well, sounds nice to me. BTW, heard interesting things about AMD's K6. >Currently I dislike Intels marketing strategy how they push the >Klamath, which is performing bad compared to the PPro ... And Intels >new Level one slot for "mainly" Intel CPU's ... I think you read already >yourself about it ... I haven't heard much about it. It's probably too soon to make any judgements about the performance of Intel's "Pentium II" stuff. >Do you think, that AMD's soon coming K6 would be a good choice, since >it allows insertion into a ZIF 7 socket... This might be a reasonable way to go as long as you don't need SMP. >What do you think, will FreeBSD / gcc support the new CPU without >problems ? Any clues ? Should I wait for the K6 or buy a PPro >based board now ? We'll have to wait and see, but I suspect that it will work just fine. The price of P6's has come down so much that I don't see any reason to delay. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project