Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 11:43:30 +0000 () From: Gary Roberts <wangel@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu> To: Daniel Baker <dbaker@crash.ops.neosoft.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NexGen CPU? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960218114220.9452A-100000@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu> In-Reply-To: <199602180551.XAA00682@crash.ops.neosoft.com>
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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.
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