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4 total messages Started by Rado Faletic Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:00

#67

Author: Rado Faletic
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:00

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Has anyone got Linux running on an AMD-Athlon?

I'd be interested in knowing how well such a system performs (both price
and numerical power), and how it compares to a PIII or Alpha.

Re: Athlon and Linux

#66

Author: Robert Graham Merkel
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 00:00

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Rado Faletic <Rado.Faletic@anu.edu.au> writes:

> Has anyone got Linux running on an AMD-Athlon?
> 
> I'd be interested in knowing how well such a system performs (both price
> and numerical power), and how it compares to a PIII or Alpha.

There's a review of the Athlon as a Linux box at 

http://www.cpureview.com

A brief synopsis of the review: 
it's the fastest x86 integer processor available today,
it's WAY (20-50%) faster at FP operations than the PIII, standard PIII
motherboards are NOT compatible, so you need a motherboard for it,
and it's a great CPU if you can build a system from it at the right price.

Re: Athlon and Linux

#65

Author: Keith McGaughran
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 00:00

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Rado Faletic wrote:
> 
> Has anyone got Linux running on an AMD-Athlon?
> 
> I'd be interested in knowing how well such a system performs (both price
> and numerical power), and how it compares to a PIII or Alpha.

Rado 
further to Robert's reply there is an article on performance optimizing
the Athlon for linux at

http://aboutlinux.com/art_k7opt1_a.html   

aboutlinux.com  looks like it will be a great site it was only started
last month

hope this helps

Keith McGaughran

Re: Athlon and Linux

#64

Author: Allan Duncan
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 00:00

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In article <37CC96A0.34E2745C@anu.edu.au>,
Rado Faletic  <Rado.Faletic@anu.edu.au> wrote:
>
>Has anyone got Linux running on an AMD-Athlon?
>
>I'd be interested in knowing how well such a system performs (both price
>and numerical power), and how it compares to a PIII or Alpha.

In order to run the Athlon you need to plug it into a motherboard.
I asked a couple of reps at the computer show last week, and production
boards are still about a month off.

And I'm sure there will need to be some tweaks of the kernel to best use
the Athlon's features.

Allan Duncan  a.duncan@trl.telstra.com.au  (+613) 9253 6708, Fax 9253 6776
 Infrastructure - Broadband Networks
 Telstra Research Labs, Box 249 Rosebank MDC
 Clayton, Victoria, 3169, Australia

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