Subject: Re: Is it ok to use AMD athlon processors?
To: None <pts@bom.gov.au>
From: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/15/2001 15:29:25
> As far as port i386 NetBSD is concerned, is the AMD
> athlon processor 100% ok to use?
> 
> The new box I'm getting here at work is going to be
> AMD unless I say I need INTEL because I run NetBSD.
> I'm pretty sure AMD is meant to be totally INTEL
> compatible, but I'd like to be sure because I want to
> keep running NetBSD at work when the new hardware
> arrives and I've never had to answer this before.

- Are you 100% O.K. that only CPU is 100% O.K.?

- If NetBSD is 100% O.K. with INTEL CPUs, and AMD CPUs is 100%
  O.K. (compatible) with INTEL CPUs, NetBSD is 100% O.K. with AMD
  CPUs.

- But it's impossible to prove that a thing is 100% O.K.

- I'm using Duron 700 and it works pretty well. I believe that it's
  99.9% O.K. ;)

Masao

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Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp>