From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 16 17:25:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sawasdee.cc.columbia.edu (sawasdee.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D48814CE3 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:25:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (dialup-8-10.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.36.198]) by sawasdee.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA10211; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:25:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37684048.BCDB777D@confusion.net> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:24:40 -0400 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz References: <87btefitux.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Last I checked the DX4 was only produced at 100MHZ. Of course I could be wrong. I'm pretty sure that if it was lower it'd be a DX2. Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Hi all: > > Could somebody comment on the following startup messages: > > FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #2: Thu Mar 11 16:40:53 EST 1999 > root@door.wgaf.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/DOORKERNEL2 > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > CPU: i486 DX4 (486-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x480 Stepping=0 > Features=0x3 > > Primarilly I would like to know what speed the CPU is running at. It > couldn't possibly be 1MHz, could it now? ;^) > > I inherited the i486 computer w/o any docs, so I have no idea how fast > it is. The timing frequency doesn't appear at boot-up. I borrowed a > copy of Norton Diagnostics for DOS and ran it from a floppy -- it > reported 102MHz. > > Any suggestions? > -- > Arcady Genkin > "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate > of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 1999 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message