Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:02:03 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.immure.com> To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> Cc: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org>, "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIA chip set Message-ID: <20000707100203.A48036@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007070754400.80222-100000@harlie.bfd.com>; from ejs@bfd.com on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:56:24AM -0700 References: <20000707075015.A45531@luke.immure.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007070754400.80222-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
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On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:56:24AM -0700, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 05:01:16PM -0700, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Linh Pham wrote: > > > > > > > Does anyone know if the boxed AMD processors that they are including the > > > > new Thunderbird varieties? > > > > > > Almost definitely not, since the Thunderbird motherboards are a very > > > scarce commodity at the moment. > > > > What has changed with the Thunderbird motherboards? > > They've gone back to a socket instead of a slot-A. Of course, it's > socket-A, which is different than anything that has come before it, so > no preexisting motherboards will work. Ahh, that change. All of my Athlon MBs and CPUs (including thunderbird) are slot-A. I haven't even seen any socket-A MBs or CPUs yet. FWI, Slot-A thunderbird CPUs are available in the OEM channels (which is what I have), and they work just fine (for me) in Slot-A MBs. Bob -- Bob Willcox Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- bob@immure.com unless it is an enemy. Austin, TX -- A. Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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