On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 12:07:36AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I think I heard at some point that you can't have two K6's on the same > > board is that true? > > This is my understanding [could be wrong]: > > K6 IS supported in multiprocessor, but it is using an SMP scheme called > OpenPIC or similar. Cyrix use the same spec. Intel use a different spec > though and no motherboards available support the open one.
Cyrix chips do SMP? I was always told K6 would but Cyrix (at least my generation, a non-MMX PR166+/PR200+ (turns out this was a downmarked chip which is FINE by me!)) > Unfortunately for now that means going with Intel's usual overpriced > efforts if you want SMP. Or going Alpha or PPC. Cost effectiveness seems to indicate PPC to me, though there are 1,000,001 different PPC for Linux branches it seems.
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