[H-GEN] AMD K6 Chip

[Michael Anthon]

Just so we all know...
>From the Macquarie Dictionary
<QUOTE>
cark, colloq. 1. to collapse; die. 2. (of a machine) to fail; break down.  Also kark [? shortened form of carcass]
</QUOTE>
There ya go, didn't know about the etymology of that word before, now I do.

Regards

Michael Anthon


On Tuesday, September 09, 1997 9:50 AM, Frank Brand [SMTP:fbrand at mailbox.uq.edu.au] wrote:
> No, AMD K6 chips. I have since found that this information is correct
> that the early AMD K6 chips did cause intermitent failure with Linux
> kernel builds (apparently 1 in 5 or 10 would give segmentation fault and
> cark it [is that the Oxford Dictionary spelling for cark?])
> 
>
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