OK.
Is there any way that I can recognize the K6s belonging to that batch?
Were they dealed?

Roberto Safora Romay
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De: David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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Fecha: Martes, 05 de Enero de 1999 05:00 p.m.
Asunto: Re: [PCBUILD] AMD & other soft than MS. HDD general site


On  4 Jan 99 at 11:40, Roberto Safora Romay wrote:

> I have seen on the chips AMD K6 3D there is a logo of MS W95,
> NT... Does it mean that cannot expect good results if I try to put
> for example, Unix, on a H6 based PC?

  No -- it just means that there is no authority to certify such use.
Win9x and NT are proprietary to Microsoft, and NT specifically is
picky about the hardware you run it on.  Buyers wanting to run NT
could get a copy of Microsoft's "Hardware Compatibility List" -- and
it might be an old copy, dating from before the K6-2's introduction
-- or ask "Has Microsoft certified this chip?" and the logo indicates
the affirmative.
  There was a batch of K6s (not K6-2) that had a problem recompiling
the Linux kernel, but that's the only failure to get "good results"
that I'm aware of.


David G

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