[H-GEN] AMD K6 Chip
Maliuta
s337879 at student.uq.edu.au
Sun Sep 7 22:42:05 EDT 1997
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, David Shackleton wrote:
> While we're on this CPU thread, I wondered if someone would like to
> recap on that little box of joy[1] that John Hall brought along.
>
> All I know (and this is second hand knowledge as I arrived after the
> presentation) is that apparently anyone will be able to produce these
> chips as the spec's is publicly available and that they're of the
> magnitude of 500mhz, and the CPU itself worth US$29...
>
My understand was that it was the motherboard that anyone could produce as
the design had been released to the net. The cpu would be bought from
digital for us$29 at qty. 1 and the rest of the componentry was standard
stock from other companies.
>
> [1] The clear acrylic box containg the apparently new CPU from digital
/me would like a similar box on my desk(clear acrylic and all).
Nikolai Andreyevich
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