I don't foresee any difficulty installing linux on one of these babies. K7 will either work as a x86 or altha chip. I even heard somewhere that dual motherboards will be able to take both the K7 and Altha chip.
probably not but a nice thought If there will be a difficulty it will probably be sorted out in a matter of hours by distributions and everybody will be reporting there compile time to the newsgroups.
I'll be getting a dual or quad board for sure but i will wait for the next gen of K7 ( the first ones won't be in copper) the second bunch will be 0.18 and in copper, RAAAA!!! Imagine HALF-LIFE run on that with a TNT2 or even better a POWERVR SG - dream machine.
The spec for the K7 is awesome (200Mhz bus, with rambus ram, altha techonlogy bus, designed by the very person you designed the altha chips, multiple cpu support, ohh and almost forgot COPPER instead of aluminium ). All that sounds very tasty and i will get it for sure. I think AMD are slightly over confident of their chips but then again if you know anything about marketing then you would know that calling your chip slower then your competitiors is not gonna help sales. Intel have too much of my money already why not give some to AMD.
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probably not but a nice thought If there will be a difficulty it will probably be sorted out in a matter of hours by distributions and everybody will be reporting there compile time to the newsgroups.
I'll be getting a dual or quad board for sure but i will wait for the next gen of K7 ( the first ones won't be in copper) the second bunch will be 0.18 and in copper, RAAAA!!! Imagine HALF-LIFE run on that with a TNT2 or even better a POWERVR SG - dream machine.
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The spec for the K7 is awesome (200Mhz bus, with rambus ram, altha techonlogy bus, designed by the very person you designed the altha chips, multiple cpu support, ohh and almost forgot COPPER instead of aluminium ). All that sounds very tasty and i will get it for sure. I think AMD are slightly over confident of their chips but then again if you know anything about marketing then you would know that calling your chip slower then your competitiors is not gonna help sales. Intel have too much of my money already why not give some to AMD.