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Date:      Tue, 5 Jan 1999 01:54:02 +0100
From:      "Bjoern 'pille' Karlowsky" <pille@chillout.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Does FreeBSD run on Intel Celeron processors?
Message-ID:  <19990105015402.A674@chillout.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990105110449.G70886@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 11:04:49AM %2B1030
References:  <s690af16.066@Oppenheimerfunds.com> <19990105110449.G70886@freebie.lemis.com>

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Quoting Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>:
> On Monday,  4 January 1999 at 12:07:25 -0700, Betsy Barker wrote:
> > Does the FreeBSD software run on the Intel Celeron processor?
> 
> Yes.  But the Celeron is a poor choice of processor, since it has no
> cache.  You'd be better off with AMD or Cyrix.

I'm running a celeron A (mendocino with 128kb sync cache) and it's
a real cheap alternative to a PII plus you can teach it SMP with a
simple hardware hack. It's great (btw where do I submit my cpuid kernel 
 patch ?)

bye
	pille.

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