Re: AMDK6

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On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:12:17AM -0400, Jeff Ratliff wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:23:12PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > 
> > > Shardul Vyas wrote:
> > > > i read for kernel 2.2 specifications--
> > > > 
> > > > "AMD K6 is not supported"
> > > 
> > > Erm -- what? Where?
> > > 
> > > Mike Burger wrote:
> > > > Fedora Core doesn't make use of the 2.2 kernel...it uses 2.4 (FC1) or 2.6 
> > > > (FC2/3).
> > > > 
> > > > I wouldn't go back to a 2.2 kernel, at this point.
> > > 
> > > True. But even if there was a problem with 2.2 and the K6 at one point
> > > (and I never heard of it), it didn't last long. The K6 came out in 1997,
> > > the K6-2 in 1998, and 2.4 came out right at the end of 2000, if I recall
> > > correctly.
> > 
> > As I recall, though, the initial message mentioned Fedora...ah, here it 
> > is:
> > 
> > "i already have fedora core installed on my AMD K6(3D now)machine."
> > 
> > Although, looking at it, now, I note the 3DNow notation, and I don't 
> > recall that being available on the K6 line...he may well have a K7 
> > (Athlon/Duron) and just misnomered.
> >
> This probably refers to the K6-III (also called K6-3 or K6-3DNow!). It was
> a short lived processor. I think it came out in a 400 Mhz and 450 Mhz 

The K6-II also supports 3D-Now. They went up to (at least) 500 Mhz, there
may have been a 550. (My old K6-2/500 is now running my smoothwall firewall
box.) Nice processor, though the intel-style FPU is weaker than the P5's
equivalent.

> version. I'm running a 400 here in my little mail server box (it just 
> serves mail to me, mostly). It had a weird tri-level cache structure, 
> and the 400 Mhz version was just a tad slower than a P3-450. AMD 
> dropped marketing for it as the K6-2 went to 450 and 500 Mhz speeds,
> then the Athlon came out, and it didn't matter any more. Here's a
> link to AMD's page on the chip. 
> 
> <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_1260_1288,00.html>
> 
> 
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