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
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