Will v18.1 run on an AMD K7 at appropriately fast speeds without modification? Looks like the K7 will be the heat for at least several months.... http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,38021,00.html?st.ne.fd.gif.d Excerpts: The delay to Coppermine--a high-performance version of the Pentium III--means that the Intel chip will not appear until November. That may mean that the chip won't appear in many PCs in 1999, since new systems don't often come out so late in the year. ------------------- Under different circumstances, the delays might be irrelevant, but AMD is currently preparing to release its K7 processor. The chip will be announced later this month and start to roll out in volumes later in the summer at speeds of 500 MHz, 550 MHz, and 600 MHz, said several sources. Benchmarks released by AMD recently show that the chip will outperform the Pentium III and even the more-upscale Xeon processor on certain benchmarks. "It does seem likely that the K7 will be no slower than the Pentium III. It is also clear that, unlike the situation with the K6, the K7 will be no laggard in floating point and multimedia performance," wrote Michael Slater in a recent Microprocessor Watch newsletter. ________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
