>
> > > > K6 is AMD's pentium-pro comeptitive chip, and it has MMX instructions.
> > > Hmm. Are the instructions compatible all the way down-to-the-wire with
> > > those from Intel?? Just a thought. Might be an easy way to build a
> > > really fast, inexpensive machine.
> > I would assume so ... I know a few people with Cyrix or AMD based
> > Linux boxes ...
>
> Forgot to mention that I was wondering about the MMX compatibility in
> particular... and what about the cache sizes on the AMD chips? =)
Speaking of comparisons, Does anyone know how well the Math co-processors
of AMD chips compare to intel chips? I recall Cyrix chips (hint hint my
old 5x86 which was no better than a 486) had nice cpu's and horrible fpu's
so I was just curious. Does anyone have benchmarks?
-kait
_Kaitlin_Rachael_Silver_______________(kota@dreamscape.org)_
| web: http://www.dreamscape.org . . |
| pgp: http://www.dreamscape.org/pgp ' `.' ` |
|________________________________________________` '_____|
` '
`.'