Bob Razler on Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:23:15 -0400


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RE: [PLUG] Free AMD stuff.


I never paid much attention to any AMD offering prior to the Athlons.  That
CPU may very well have become the Athlon for all I know.

AMD was never a serious contender prior to the Athlon because of their
supply problems.  However, now they are clearly the CPU of choice for both
performance machines.

Also, now that they have a chipset with integrated audio and video, they are
also the choice for budget boxes.

I just switched to a TigerMP with dual AMD cpu's and I love it.

-----Original Message-----
From: paul@dpagin.net [mailto:paul@dpagin.net] 
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 11:10 AM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Free AMD stuff.

Speaking of AMD technology, what happened to the K6-3? AMD makes no
reference to
it on its Web site.


> I think the XP suffix was a poor coincidence on AMD's part.  It has
nothing
> to do with WinXP.  It is simply the suffix denoting CPU's based on the new
> Palomino core.  The new Duron 1 GHz CPU's are built on the scaled down
> Palomino core (called Morgan) but they do not bear any additional suffix.


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