Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 22:47:50 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Thomas Arnold <tom@inna.net> Cc: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K5 Pentium Equivalents Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970320223510.23468V-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960320114716.3176G-100000@caught.inna.net>
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On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Thomas Arnold wrote: > > > Well, AMD has it's own chipset out now, starting to ship in the second > > quater - I'll take a look whetever there is anything about OpenPIC > > available... > > The AMD-640 chipset does NOT support OpenPIC. However after speaking with That's sad. Especially as any motherboards will arive some time other the chipset ships. > my AMD rep, we can expect another chipset 3rd quarter that WILL support > OpenPIC and 4+ processors. Also expect the K6 chip to be available in > quantity Mid April which is AMD's reasoning behind putting out their own > chipsets. Well, I would expect motherboards out and available at reasonable price around 1st Q98 then. Having more chips is good - I hope the prizes on resonably fast processors will drop faster :-) > > VIA was working on an OpenPIC chipset also and in fact worked with AMD on > the AMD-640 chipset. Don't expect Intel to support OpenPIC :-) But most > of Intels competition WILL support OpenPIC as Intel's Chips will run under > OpenPIC the reverse just isn't true. Good to know. Sander > > I remain ever hopefull... > > > +-----------------------------------------------+ > : Tom Arnold - No relation to Rosanne : > : SysAdmin/Pres - TBI, Ltd ( inna.net ) : > : The Middle Peninsula's Internet Connection : > +-----------------------------------------------+ > >
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