From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 18 08:49:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA21837 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 08:49:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu (wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu [136.165.243.183]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA21821 Sun, 18 Feb 1996 08:49:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wangel@localhost) by wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu (8.7.3/8.6.12) id LAA09550; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 11:43:31 GMT Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 11:43:30 +0000 () From: Gary Roberts To: Daniel Baker cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NexGen CPU? In-Reply-To: <199602180551.XAA00682@crash.ops.neosoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, Daniel Baker wrote: > Has anyone heard of a NexGen Pentium chip and motherboard? > > I saw an ad for one today that claims it's as good, if not > better than an Intel. Also has good review from the standard PC Hardware > magazines. > > Has anyone had any experince running FreeBSD on these? > > Thanks > Daniel > > -- > dbaker@neosoft.com - Daniel Baker - FTP & UseNet News Admin - Neosoft, Inc. > Any opinions expressed are mine. > The NExtGEN cpu are junk. They are faster in some cases then the intel, but they do not have an floating point chips or whatnot, you have to use 'emulators' that emulate floating point processes.