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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (46626)1/19/1999 2:09:00 PM
From: Gary Ng  Respond to of 1572942
 
Kevin, Re: what major OEMs did AMD have lined up behind the K6 before prodution?

I believe it is a bit different in the case of K6 and K7. K6 being
a Socket 7 compatible CPU is sure that at least they can go into
these boards. K7 is new chipset, motherboard etc.

In fact, this is something I am curious. What is so special about
this K7 ? It looks more like a brand new CPU family(in the same
rank as MIPS, Alpha, PPC or UltraSparc). This is no longer a
performance only issue.

Gary



To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (46626)1/19/1999 2:23:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572942
 
Kevin - Re: " what major OEMs did AMD have lined up behind the K6 before prodution?"

They had NO major OEM's but they did have CyberMAx, Lugaski (sp?) Computers, LeapFrog, MonoRail and a few other lesser names signed up.

Remember - a K6 plugged into a Pentium MMX motherboard.

Try plugging a K7 into any Intel motherboard !!!!

Paul