Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:42:12 -0400 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: nathan@vidican.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon MP / AMD 760MP Chipset (Athlon SMP question) Message-ID: <200107101642.f6AGgCx34740@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:39:31 PDT." <3B4B21B3.26B76804@mindspring.com>
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terry tumbled, > but the motherboards are "jumbo sized", and take a strange > power connector, so you can only get the power supply from > one vendor (so far). two, actually. > Instead, AMD implemented the Intel APIC specification; > I'm not sure if they did it by licensing the patent > (Intel had a patent on the APIC design), or if it's > just been long enough for it to come off patent The Athlon uses the Alpha's ev6 spec, not the intel spec. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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