[KLUG Members] Dual proc Mobos

[Adam Williams]

>>Now that is cool (different speed processors).  I'll finally grant a 
>>feather for AMD's cap.
>AMD has got API Networks and a crapload of former Alpha engineers.  And
>even Intel has licensed their x86-64 ISA.  The problem with AMD has
>_never_ been its products, but its products in the shadow of Intel.

I tried running servers on AMD K6 & K6-2 hardware on a couple of
occasions and I'd strongly disagree,  but since that is pretty old stuff
at this point it doesn't much matter. 

We had to raise the core voltage beyond the rated value in order to get
uptime of more than 48 hours,  we had memory corruption (seg faults) on
multiple machines, etc...  Dropping in Intel chips solved the problems.

>First they finally got off the Intel platform.  That was good.  Now with
>x86-64, _they_ control the ISA!  No more endless Intel BS instructions
>and "workarounds."  AMD controls the platform!
>The PC world just got 10x better.

Competition is good, that is an Open Source motto.   I wonder what ever
became of Cyrix?

The presence of KDE just gives incentive for GNOME to get better and
better. :)