On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Fred A. Miller wrote:
jep@jephill.com wrote:
** Reply to note from "Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@lightlink.com> Sun, 26 Jul 1998 00:17:22 -0400
One, they run too hot,
Too hot for what? Isn't this the old canard spread by Intel + sycophant press? My experience is very limited, but I haven't had that prob.
You're alone.
I don't think he is alone.
and two, floating point is slower than Intel,
Yes, but if you want FP, don't you buy Alpha?
No.....haven't needed to so far.
Intel 200MMX AMD K6-200 BABCo32 NT 227 241 BABCo32 W95 192 203 (source c't 6/97) BABCo is a benchmark with standard application like Excel. (Intel does not like that benchmark very much because it does not reflect the power that Intel CPU's get with the benchmarks made by Intel :-) AMD does not have as much FPU power as Intel that is right but for most user there is no need to spend more money for INTEL CPU's(except SMP but one would buy PII.. and not Pentium).
and three, they don't work on a lot of MOB's.
Wouldn't it be sufficient for them to work on some good ones (e.g., some mobos w Award bios.
I don't know of a good MOB that they'll work on, and there's NO advantage to me nor my users at Cornell to warrant use it.
In earlier postings you told that TYAN would be such nice mainboards and they support AMD CPU's (K6 200). Now I have a problem to understand it. I think it is good to give the personal opinion but one should give facts. Only to say one mainboard is junk does not do it in my opinion. Maybe I only have a problem because I am not used to such postings on linux-smp. I think what they tell you there is that the most important part in these days is the BIOS. FYI I attach the quote from Alan Cox about my TYAN mainboard. Congratulations, send the bill for your hair damage to the supplier. You have yet another SMP box with faulty bios. I respect everyones own opinion but one has to give facts. Only to say they are junk is in my opinion no good style. It is good that you made only good experice with TYAN. Dominik Weis --------------------------------------------------------------------- Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose your job. These economic downturns are very difficult to predict, but sophisticated econometric modeling houses like Data Resources and Chase Econometrics have successfully predicted 14 of the last 3 recessions. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e