Re: Linux on AMD Athlon 800 MHz

Daniel J Blueman (dan@bright9.screaming.net)
Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:47:37 +0100


Hi,

> Does any one know, with certainty, whether Linux supports the AMD Athlon
> architecture, in terms of its motherboard (SlotA 100MHz) and CPU? I badly
> want to buy one of these -40C cooled machines, but if no Linux...no go.

The Slot A host bus runs at 200MHz IIRC (v nice), and the memory bus
100/133Mhz selectable.

This makes for nice scalability when SMP AMD-K7 motherboards appear.

Dan
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Daniel J Blueman - daniel.j.blueman@stud.umist.ac.uk
Undergraduate - BSc Computing Science
UMIST - Manchester

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