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It's the Intel Pentium's (P5's) that have the floating point (advanced math) problem! Better to go with w/a P6 or P2.
-----Original Message-----
From: greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 6:38 PM
To: Hinton Clabaugh
Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Non-Intel CPU's with TS
<< File: ATT00003.htm >> I was shopping for a new computer this weekend - and I was
told by various salespeople that the AMD chips had more
problems with advanced math calculations than the Intel
chips (i.e., you got more floating point errors, etc.).
Can't prove it by me. That's just what I was told. And
since I could buy a box with an Intel chip for about the
same price as a box with an AMD chip - I stuck with the
Intel chip. Robyn
Hinton Clabaugh wrote:
> If anyone has been running TS on an AMD K6 or Cyrix
> 6x86MX CPU, has it been going well? A few months back
> Omega warned on this list against using non-Intel CPUs,
> but when pressed they didn't really seem to know if there
> are incompatibilities with the K6 or 6x86MX. I got the
> impression they were being overly cautious, as there had
> been problems with an earlier generation Cyrix chip. They
> said they would test everything, but apparently it's not a
> priority. Thanks in advance for your comments.
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