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Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 14:17:39 +1000 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Non-Intel CPUs and FreeBSD.
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On Fri, 9 May 1997, Darren Reed wrote:

> 
> Is anyone using any of the AMD/Cyrix CPUs with FreeBSD successfully ?

I'm using AMD 486DX4100 and 686-120/P150+ happily.
Michael Smith is using K5-133s, I believe, and he says they are a good
pentium replacement.

> And more importantly, is it possible to use the CPUs in a multi CPU
> configuration under -current (or at all) ?

This came up a week or so ago.  Intel CPUs use APIC and others use OPIC.
There are no OPIC motherboards available.

Danny