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From: The Devil Himself <fullermd@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Mark Holden <markh@HEMPAC.Net>
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Subject: Re: Non-Intel CPUs and FreeBSD.
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On Fri, 9 May 1997, Mark Holden wrote:

> >Is anyone using any of the AMD/Cyrix CPUs with FreeBSD successfully ?
> >
> >And more importantly, is it possible to use the CPUs in a multi CPU
> >configuration under -current (or at all) ?
> >
> >Darren
> 
> 
> To add my two cents to this: My main FreeBSD system (that I'm writing this
> from) has *always* been an AMD CPU, first a 486/66, then a 486/100, then
> a 5x86/133, now a 5K86.  All have worked flawlessly.
> 
> -Mark Holden (markh@hempac.net)
> 

Mine's faster; I have almost $0.035.
My FreeBSD system started out as a Intel Pentium 120, but soon became a
Cyrix 6x86 166+, and I could se a speed difference,but didn't get any
unexplained crashes (*cough* 95 *cough*)

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