While I think the Altheon is a great chip, is it's architechure _that_ different from a (koff) Intel chip? I'd suspect there wouldn't be lots of improvements, but then again I don't know squat about how the AMD chip differs from the Intel. On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 15:21:55 -0500 generic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Vadim Plessky wrote: > > > > On Saturday 04 November 2000 17:05, T Korte wrote: > > | On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > | > > > | > For that matter, why not also have a 686 version ;) > > | > > > | > Thanks... Dan. > > | > > | I'd like to see an Athlon version, but perhaps I'll try to > optimise some > > | things myself. > > | Tom > > > > I'd like to support Tom. Athlon (Duron) optimized mandrake would > be very nice. > > AMD selling more and more processors, just for one quarter they > sold aroun > > 3.5 million. > > May be, at least key packages can be optimized for Athlon and > available > > through Cooker. > > > > -- > > > > Vadim Plessky > > http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) > > http://kde2.newmail.ru/index_rus.html (Russian) > > I also agree! I use an Athlon 850 at work that runs Mandrake 7.2. > It would definitely be nice if programs were optimized for it, as > I'm using it mostly for running logic simulations with VCS (thanks > for now supporting Linux, Synopsys!) > > I guess I'll have to wait 'til kernel 2.4.x is stable :( > > GenEric > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 (see http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html for details) GCS d- s: a C++$ ULAHS++++$ P+++$ L+++>++++$ E++>++++ W+(-) N+ o K? w--- O- !M-- V- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t 5- X- R- tv-->! b++ DI++ D+ G+ e++>++++ h* r y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
