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
…However, it wasn’t a very popular processor as it arrived late, then offered lackluster performance in the competitive environment it joined. AMD’s shiny homegrown 4.3M transistor chip featured a…