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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 1997 04:04:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To:        Brian Litzinger <brian@mpress.com>
Cc:        smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tyan Titan-Pro ATX S1668 no more? or changing?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.970423040300.9195H-100000@zen.cypher.net>
In-Reply-To: <19970423004945.15230@mpress.com>

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well, given that the PS/2 port and second serial port on my machine don't 
work, i don't think a recall is out of the question.

as for K6, well, it has full MESI cache cohereceny for SMP.  whether it 
will be supported in a P6 board is unlikely since K6 is Pentium pin 
compatible.

On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Brian Litzinger wrote:

> I apologize if this in inapproprate for this list.
> 
> I thought potential purchasers of the Tyan S1668 might be
> interested in this heresay.
> 
> I stopped by Fry's Electronics in San Jose Wednesday, and tried
> to buy a Tyan Titan-Pro ATX S1668 motherboard.
> 
> They was a place in the shelf for them, but there were no S1668s,
> S1662s or other of the Tyan high end motherboards.
> 
> Where the boards would have been was a sign saying something along the
> lines of:
> 
>    We're not out of Tyan [product] just ask for a sales person.
> 
> So I did.   He informed me that the people from the head office
> had come buy and taken them all.  I asked if there were any at
> the other stores.
> 
> He wondered off and came back about 5 minutes later. He said he
> looked in the computer and there were none in any of the Fry's
> stores anywhere, including the new store in Sacramento.
> 
> He then said that Fry's did not expect to get anymore, but to
> expect the new version in about a week based on the [I forgot]
> chipset, which included support for the new [this and that].
> 
> Among this and that he included the K6 processor.  I was not
> aware that the K6 had support for SMP, but then this was just
> a sales droid.
> 
> Basically, it would seem new versions of their motherboards are 
> coming out with a new chipset, and some will support the K6.
> 
> -- 
> Brian Litzinger
> brian@mediacity.com
> 



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