From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 17:19:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA02378 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 17:19:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from homer10.u.washington.edu (durang@homer10.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA02372 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 17:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by homer10.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.06/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA15413; Thu, 18 Jul 96 17:19:09 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 17:19:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh To: Gabor Zahemszky Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Pentium vs AMD/Cyrix/NexGen In-Reply-To: <199607181417.OAA00199@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, I am running FreeBSD ver. 2.0.5 on my AMD DX4-120 (Enhanced version) without any processor related trouble. Note: I couldn't even boot LINUX, but I don't know if that is a processor thing or not... Maybe you haven't heard... NexGen was bought out by AMD(?) and is discontinued. Ken Marsh On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Gabor Zahemszky wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to know more pros/cons about these type of processors. > So many people said something about Cyrix, but nothing about the other clones. > So? Are there any known differences? What about a multiprocessor machine > with these clone processors? > -- > Gabor Zahemszky > > -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- > Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. > Tsiolkovsky >