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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:50:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mike Roth <miker@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AMD K6
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970730114952.9727A-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <33DE4C19.BDAC5A34@acm.org>

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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Mike Roth wrote:

> I am planing to upgrade my system to an ASUS TX97 board with an AMD K6
> processor.  I know that some operating systems have had problems with
> the K6 chip. If anyone knows whether FreeBSD has any problems with the
> K6 please email me at miker@acm.org .

There is a discussion going on as to possible bugs in the K6 (and
potentially K5) that causes problems with FreeBSD.

The safe bet would be with Intel at the moment.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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