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Subject: Re: Cyrix 586 vs. Pentium for FreeBSD?
To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina)
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 12:13:58 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199602100814.AAA02077@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Feb 10, 96 00:14:50 am
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> I noticed a slew of manufacturers are using Cyrix 586's in the most recent
> line of notebook computers instead of Pentiums.  I've had a _really_ bad
> Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Cyrix 586?  If so, any problems that you

I've got one at home, it detects or did detect as a 486 processor--the
install went ok, and it seems to work ok--although I don't use my home
system enough to worry about--ie I've had it on for most of 3 hours...so
this isn't really a good test...