Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 15:38:23 +0200
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Subject: Re: K7 potentials
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In-Reply-To: <19990707215952.J27821@mindspring.com>; from Anderson MacKay on Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 09:59:52PM -0500
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On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 09:59:52PM -0500, Anderson MacKay wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:10:08PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> > I believe this will be just as expensive as their intel counterparts. And
> > worse, such an OpenPIC board would be a totally new design, with totally
> > new implementation errors ;) But my opinion doesn't really count anything
> > here ;)
> 
> Errr ... K7 is using the Alpha's EV6 bus, and I'd say SMP on that is a
> relatively well-known quantity.

I'd say alpha + ev6 is horrors. Alpha cpus might be nice, but the chipsets
generally suck. (this is my personal experience ;)

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