AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden
… As was de rigueur at the time, these AMD K5 chips were sold with a ‘performance rating’ PR figure, suggesting an integer performance comparison with an Intel Pentium with the indicated clock speed. …