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Date:      Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:04:55 +0200
From:      "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
To:        "Jesse Geddis" <sgeine@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CPU type
Message-ID:  <200203080905.g2895nv12613@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
In-Reply-To: <NGBBKILMGLGEDIHMGJANKEPJCAAA.sgeine@yahoo.com>

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Hi Jesse!

On  7 Mar 02 at 20:10 you wrote:

> I have an old canon innova notebook 360CD this is what dmesg reports
> about the CPU
> 
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: AMD Am5x86 Write-Back (486-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x4f4  Stepping = 4
>   Features=0x1<FPU>
> 
> the processor is an 5x86 AMD P75 working at 133mhz with a 486 BIOS
> from Phoenix. the P75 is what the bios reports during boot time. 

AMD 5x86 *is* a 486 class CPU. You can think of it as 486dx4. Your CPU 
works at 133 MHz (33 MHz FSB x 4). The "P75" is a marketing blurb which 
wants to tell you that this CPU is approximately as fast as Pentium 75.
--
Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
* If you don't think women are explosive, drop one.


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