From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 25 12:57:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA04248 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 12:57:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from aeffle.Stanford.EDU (aeffle.Stanford.EDU [171.65.76.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA04243 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 12:57:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from hlew@localhost) by aeffle.Stanford.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA09464; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 12:56:59 -0800 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 12:56:59 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew To: Jeff Ehrenkrantz cc: Freebsd Hackers Subject: Re: AMD 586 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Jeff Ehrenkrantz wrote: > Does anyone have an stories on using the AMD nx586 good or bad? > tnx..je > Are you referring to the AMD 5x86? NexGen makes the Nx586. Yep, this can be confusing because.... There's the AMD 5x86, Cyrix 586, NexGen Nx586, and of course the Pentium. The first two use a 486 style pinout, and the remaining 2 use their own pinouts. The AMD 5x86-133 is a bit faster than a Pentium 75 and a Cyrix 586-100 according to AMD's WWW page. (see http://www.amd.com/html/products/pcd/5x86/20030a.html) The Cyrix 586-120 gets close to the speed of a Pentium-90. The NexGen PF110 is about the speed of a 110Mhz Pentium (if one existed) and even besting out a Pentium 133 according to numbers from Winstone 95 for 32bit code. (see http://www2.shoppersnet.com/pf110stats.html for NexGen PF110 numbers) (see http://www2.shoppersnet.com/p133stats.html for Pentium 133 numbers) As for the NexGen 586 PF110, I tried it with FreeBSD 2.1R and it works great. No compatibility problems and is very fast. Info can be found at: AMD (www.amd.com) Cyrix (www.cyrix.com) Intel (www.intel.com) NexGen (www.nexgen.com and http://www2.shoppersnet.com) or newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardare.chips