AMDK6

[James Wilkinson]

We're getting rather off-topic here...

Mike Burger wrote:
> As I recall, though, the initial message mentioned Fedora...ah, here it 
> is:
> 
> "i already have fedora core installed on my AMD K6(3D now)machine."
> 
> Although, looking at it, now, I note the 3DNow notation, and I don't 
> recall that being available on the K6 line...he may well have a K7 
> Athlon/Duron) and just misnomered.

Jeff Ratliff replied:
> This probably refers to the K6-III (also called K6-3 or K6-3DNow!). It was
> a short lived processor. I think it came out in a 400 Mhz and 450 Mhz 
> version. I'm running a 400 here in my little mail server box (it just 
> serves mail to me, mostly). It had a weird tri-level cache structure, 
> and the 400 Mhz version was just a tad slower than a P3-450. AMD 
> dropped marketing for it as the K6-2 went to 450 and 500 Mhz speeds,
> then the Athlon came out, and it didn't matter any more. Here's a
> link to AMD's page on the chip. 
> 
> <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_1260_1288,00.html>

True, but the K6-2 had 3D-Now too (it was what made it a K6-2 rather
than a plain K6). As you implied, the K6-III was much more expensive,
came out rather later, and was rapidly replaced by the Athlon, so it's
a lot less common than the K6-2.

(I understand the K originally stood for kryptonite, from the Superman
stories).

None of this should affect the original poster...

James.

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