[ moved this to techtalk for obvious reasons ]
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Julie wrote:
> From: JoAnne Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > These are incremental changes in response to market conditions.
> > I wouldn't want to put a Athlon in a standard PIII chip socket.
[snip]
>
> Uh, why not?
>
> This is what I mean by "extensible". It also touches on proprietary
> versus not. What if chip manufacturers standardized on the pinout
> of x86-compatible CPUs?
>
> What would the implications be for AMD and Intel if x86 compatible
> CPUs were plug compatible?
Don't forget that up to (Super) Socket 7 this more or less was the case.
Nils
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