[ale] AMD 5X86 chips...

[andy]

Chuck Mattern wrote:
> 
> > This is still faster by about 25%. Look for AMD 5x86-160 coming soon. Also th
> e
> > AM5k86 75, 90, 100 are also good choice. Speed is same as Pentium and so is t
> he pin-out
> > Therefore A Pentium motherboard is needed.
> 
> Any word on SMP support?
> 
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AMD 5K86, 6K86, and Cyrix 6x86 will all use the OpenPIC architecture. This is a new 
standard for simmetric multiprocessing and is said to be more flexable than intel's
propreitary APIC, which the others would have to pay royalty to use. In intel's APIC the
interrupt controller is on board the CPU, While in OpenPIC the chipset takes care of all
that. Supposedly more interrupts are available and so on. 

			../Andy