RE: tlug: Intel Pentium-II

["Marc E. Christensen" <marc@example.com>]

On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Christopher Sekiya wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > Hm, I thought AMD K6s would work on a dual board?
> 
> They'll work, but only one processor will actually run.  Intel has
> (patented?  Not sure if that's the right term) the MP spec.  Third-party
> Intel-like processors don't do MP.

True, although they (both Cyrix and AMD) implement an open MP standard
called OpenPIC I beleive.  The sad thin is that there are no mother board
manufactureres makeing boards that follow this spec - including ADM!  AMD
does have a few motherboards that it makes.  It's kinda weird that they
don't produce a MP board...

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