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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...
> 
> 
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