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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: Triton vs. SiS Pentium chipsets
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Venkat (venkat@infinet.com) wrote:
: In article <MICHAELV.96Jan15233000@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>,
: Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:


: >I assume the Cyrix M1 and AMD K5 only work on the SiS chipsets?  Has
: >anyone actually tried either one of these CPUs on a multi-tasking OS
: >yet (Windows NT or any Unix)?

: AMD K5 program has been aborted since the AMD-NexGen merger.
: Only the Nx6x86 is under joint devlopement.

As I understand it the AMD K6 was aborted(that name will be used for the 
Nx686),but NOT the K5,which is near release.