From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 9 05:27:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA16322 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 05:27:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA16315 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 05:27:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id HAA02067; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 07:26:58 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199704091226.HAA02067@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: AMD 586 CPU To: tony@warp.co.uk (Anthony Barlow) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 07:26:58 -0500 (CDT) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, tony@mail.warp.co.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970409002716.006a6410@mail.warp.co.uk> from Anthony Barlow at "Apr 9, 97 00:27:16 am" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Anthony Barlow said: > At 16:21 08-04-97 -0700, Doug White wrote: > >On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Anthony Barlow wrote: > > > >> One last question - What do you compile an AMD 586 processor is it I586 or > >> I486 and is it stable enough for a mail server running FreeBSD > 2.2.1-RELEASE? > > > >Yes, they work fine. I haven't heard any problems running them. > > Thanks > > Regards, > Anthony In your other message, you said it was a 5x86 from AMD. That's a 486 class chip. The AMD 5K86 is the pentium class, and apparently will be recognized as a pentium. Paul. -- "Time's fun when you're having flies." -- Kermit the Frog