Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Different CPUs

[Zulfiqar Naushad]

Yes Mandrake will run on AMD chips.

Right now I am running 7.0 on a K6-233 with 3D/NOW

Pretty nippy performance considering the lowly hardware.



Mike Perry wrote:

> AFAIK the K6 family of processors support the full pentium
> instruction set so there should be no problems running Mandy
> on it.
> However if Mandrake can use MMX instructions you wont get
> that boost, but if it can use AMD's 3d Now you will get that.
>
> Perhaps one of the "staff" could enlighten us about MMX and 3D Now?
>