[ale] Dual AMD chips?

[Brett Spangler]

The AMD southeast sales office is in the same building I am, and I was told
by the district sales manger that AMD has does not and has no plans to
support SMP for a while...to quote Stan.."SMP is Intel bullsh*t"...AMD is
concentraiting on single cpu enduser boxes (game machines..etc)..He did
give me a 233mmx that I have running linux though and it hauls


At 11:33 PM 8/20/97 -0400, andy wrote:
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>Geoffrey Myers wrote:
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>> Robert L. Harris wrote:
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>> > I'm currently running dual P166's on my Tyan board.  Does anyone
>> know
>> > if an AMD chip would work in Dual mode?
>> >
>> > Also,  is a K6 able to run in a Pent Motherboard?
>>
>> Yep.  At least the docs for the motherboard I bought about 6 months
>> ago
>> says it will support:
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>> Intel Pentium 75-200 MHz
>> Cyrix 100-166 Mhz
>> AMD 75-100 Mhz
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>> There's a set of dip switches that you have to configure.  I've got a
>> 75MHz in
>> there now and plan to upgrade to a 200MHz MMX shortly.
>>
>> >
>> > Robert
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> > Robert L. Harris          |   If NT is the answer,
>> > System Engineer For Hire. \_    You don't understand the question
>> >
>> > Email:
>> > Robert at ast.lmco.com
>> > http://www.orci.com/~nomad
>> >
>> > DISCLAIMER:
>> >   These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
>> >
>> > perl -e 'print
>> > $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
>>
>> --
>> Until later:
>> Geoffrey Myers   geof at abraxis.com       http://www.abraxis.com/geof
>>
>>         Opinions expressed by me are mine, all mine, only mine.....
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>The board you purchaced 6 months ago does not support AMD K6MMX even
>though it
>is a socket7. However it may work if your board has dual voltage setting
>for the CPU.
>It must have a 2.8v core with 3.3v I/O capability. If this is so then a
>simple bios upgrade
>would get things working perfectly. Typically, If a board supports MMX
>then
>it will work fine.  I've had some problems with earlier boards that
>supposedly support MMX
>but there is no documented setting for dual voltage CPUs.  And all MMX
>CPUs are
>dual voltage. The AMD 75-100 is the K5 not K6.  The K6 has MMX, 64k
>Level 1
>cache as apposed to 16k for Pentium/PentiumPro, and 32k for
>PentiumMMX/PentiumII.
>
>AMD supports the Open-PIC SMP architecture, but i am not sure if the ANY
>of their
>CPUs support SMP. I have been unable to find a confirmation anywhere on
>their site.
>Intel's own is A-PIC which has to be licenced for a hefty fee or face
>them in court :-(.
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>/andY
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