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To: Elmer who wrote (141185)	8/9/2001 4:37:54 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: What competition? Unless AMD wakes up and starts marking its processors to reflect their actual performance, it won't matter, but the actual performance of Athlon continues to be better than that of P4. As an oscillator in a circuit, though, P4 is hard to beat - and these days, oscillators seem to be what matter. Yes FreeBSD fully supports the dual Athlon. I tested FreeBSD 4.3 on a Tyan Thunder dual Athlon 1.2 GHz DDR system. It runs beautifully -- compiling the entire FreeBSD source code in under 30 minutes! The AMD APIC is perfectly compliant with the MPSPEC. In fact, the AMD MP motherboards are better than most Intel ones for compliance. This system is my preferred system for FreeBSD development and I highly recommend it. -- David O'Brien (obrien@FreeBSD.org) amdzone.com