From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 07:19:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA27681 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 07:19:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA27672 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 07:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id QAA29480; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 16:19:42 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (PAA00834); Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:43:00 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199607191543.PAA00834@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: Intel Pentium vs AMD/Cyrix/NexGen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:42:59 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: from "Ken Marsh" at Jul 18, 96 05:19:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] 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 > Well, I am running FreeBSD ver. 2.0.5 on my AMD DX4-120 (Enhanced version) > without any processor related trouble. Note: I couldn't even boot LINUX, > but I don't know if that is a processor thing or not... Hm, my FBSD machine at work is a Texas 486, my home machine is an AMD 486, but I'm interested in the Pentium class processors. > Maybe you haven't heard... NexGen was bought out by AMD(?) and is > discontinued. Thanx, I didn't hear it. And another question: does ULSI/Texas, I don't know who has any other Pentium class processor? > > I would like to know more pros/cons about these type of processors. > > So many people said something about Cyrix, but nothing about the other clones. > > So? Are there any known differences? What about a multiprocessor machine > > with these clone processors? -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky