Re: AMD K6 233 Cpu 465 BogoMips??

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Mon, 7 Sep 1998 00:12:55 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Alex Buell wrote:

>> Just gloating for a sec here, but my new AMD K6 300 is cranking out a mere
>> 599 BogoMips. :) Quite an improvement over the old '486 33MHz that crawled
>> at 16+ ...
>
>Yes, but they still haven't done a SMP system. IMHO they should get off
>their butts and design their own SMP system (which Linux could support by
>adding AMD specific code) that should be superior to that of Intel's
>(which still doesn't scale to more than 4 Intel processors unfortunately)
>SMP solution. I'd definitely buy into that. Correct me if I'm wrong
>though.

AMD *HAS* multiprocessor support. The problem is that it is not
the same as Intel's, but I believe is backwards compatible (can
take intel chips). Problem: no motherboard vendors have created
boards with the AMD SMP solution... Maybe this will change with
the new K6 chips or even K7 SLOT-A boards.

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