Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:43:45 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Dave Alderman <dave@persprog.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Pentuim or Pentuim Pro ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970410154122.23602M-100000@bagpuss.visint.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970407160425.15434B-100000@protocol.eng.umd.edu>
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On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Dave Alderman wrote: > > > 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? > > Not for FreeBSD. The basic interprocessor communications is done by the > APIC hardware, of which there are two flavors: Intel's patented APIC > design, and everyone else's OpenApic. Only trouble is, all the existing > motherboards, and FreeBSD's software, support Intel's APIC design, not > OpenApic. I'm not aware that there's any support in any OS for OpenApic, > or in any motherboard that's available. So, basically that nothing is going to be multiprocessor unless either. 1) Someone rewrites/patches/whatever each OS with OpenApic support. 2) It's an Intel chip ? If so, this is as bad news as Socket-1 for the market.. (is there an International Monopolies/Mergers commition to stop Intel putting everyone else out of the market ?)
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