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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:11:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Mike Roth <miker@acm.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AMD K6
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970730210900.11438B-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970730114952.9727A-100000@localhost>

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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Doug White wrote:

> 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.

Uhhh... A think the K5 is pretty bug free.  We have been using them since 
the early days with FreeBSD w/o problems at all.

The only difference I can tell is that most users here use Asus 
motherboards;  I guess I am one of the few who use PC Chips and FreeTech 
motherboards and have never seen any problems with K5 & K6 processors.




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