>Hey folks. Got an interesting question here. I know that microsoft has
>been in court several times for making their os non-compatible with other
>brands of os such as dr. dos, and novell dos. But has there been any
>information passed over the wire about microsoft not behaving with
>processor chips other than intel? My girlfriend bought an amd k6 300MHZ
>chip/motherboard combo at the last computer show, (got a real good deal
>too) and win95 is having one hell of a time with it all. Illegal
>operations and blue screens all over the place. It's frustrating both of
>us to no end. I realize a 300MHZ machine is hardly survivior material,
>though in 6 months it probably will be, but if this is a valid concern for
>the faster chips, I'm sure it would apply to the slower ones as well.
>Anyone have any info on this one? Thanks much.
300 MHz is in the SurvPC slot nowdays - 400 is on the border! Ah well, a
486 with DOS is faster than a Pentium with W95 on all aspects so I assume
that my P166 will be usable for quite some time. And all my new games are
just NES/SNES games ;)
To the problem at hand, you will need to get the patch that ALL AMD CPUs
over some MHz needs (sorry can't rmember everything now can I?). If I
remember correctly you can either buy this from M$ (for like 20-30$) or get
it for free from AMD.
My advice would be to go to http://www.amd.com/ and search for the patch.
I don't know if AMD ever put M$ to the court for this, or for the behavior
with the patch that costed money.
And no, the problem only arises over some border (I think it was 300).
//Bernie
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