[NTLUG:Discuss] Athlon incompatibilities?

[Dan Carlson]

I've been running an original Athlon for a year now under Linux, Win
2000, and Win 98SE.  The only software incompatibility that I have
encountered is with Intel's VTune profiler.  VTune checks that it is
running on an Intel processor and refuses to run if not.  So I keep a
PIII system around just in case I need to do some profiling with
VTune, an otherwise excellent profiler.

Dan Carlson

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> I'm thinking of building a system with the AMD Athlon
> Thunderbird 1GHz CPU. This will be the first time I'll
> move out of Intel Inside land.
>
> My main concern is software compatibility: Apparently,
> most software should work fine but there are stories of
> incompatibilities, e.g. StarOffice 5.2 was available only
> for x86 machines, some PC games are limited to Intel
> architecture, etc.
>
> Any real life encounters with Athlon incompatible software
> (Windows and Linux) that people have run into? Also, tips
> from anyone who has recently built a similar system will
> also be appreciated.
> Sameer
>
>
>
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