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From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Subject: Re: Cyrix, AMD, Intel
In-Reply-To: <19990608122155.1225.qmail@kemicol.rezidew.net> from "rezidew@rezidew.net" at "Jun 8, 99 12:21:55 pm"
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Hi, "Graphic," I do not have your answers, but this question is much
more appropriate in freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. I'm bouncing it
over there.

Hope someone can help you.

rezidew@rezidew.net wrote,
> I have just bought two (new?) machines.
> 
> one is a AMD-K62 (350)
> the other is a Cyrix MII (366)
> 
> I have several questions...
> 
> #1) how should I compile my kernel 'i[3456]86'?
> 
> #2) when I boot up the AMD with freebsd it's 
>     detected as a 586 running at some where around
>     356.22MHz. Why only 586?
> 
> #3) when I boot up the Cyrix with OpenBSD it's
>     detected as a 686 running at 251.36Mhz.
>     should I expect the same with FreeBSD? why 
>     does this happen? is there something wrong
>     with the processor?
> 
> #4) I have a Dual Processor Pentium-Pro-200.
>     If I compile in SMP for that machine,
>     on which of the three machines should I 
>     expect to see the best performance? (all 
>     things being equal)
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Graphic Rezidew
> Graphic@rezidew.net

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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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