From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Apr 14 18:09:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA29313 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 18:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay5.UU.NET (relay5.UU.NET [192.48.96.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA29305 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 18:08:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uucp3.UU.NET by relay5.UU.NET with SMTP id QQalma27354; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 21:09:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from uanet.UUCP by uucp3.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 21:08:58 -0400 Received: by crocodil.monolit.kiev.ua; Mon, 15 Apr 96 04:03:40 +0300 Received: from localhost (dk@localhost) by clipper.cs.kiev.ua (8.6.4) id DAA17722; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 03:49:12 +0300 From: dk@clipper.cs.kiev.ua (Dmitry Kohmanyuk) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 03:49:12 +0300 Message-Id: <199604150049.DAA17722@clipper.cs.kiev.ua> To: cshenton@it.hq.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non Intel x86 support? Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hardware X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article you wrote: : On Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:44:07 -0700 (PDT) : "/\\/\\ike Claussen" wrote: : claussen> Does FreeBSD support non Intel x86 chips? ie: Cyrix/AMD? : claussen> Are there any problems with such chips? : I'm using it quite happily (and cost-effectively :-) with an AMD 486-100. : Runs as fast on that as it does on the Genuine Intel P60 I have at work. My AMD-133 running at tripled 40MHz clock does very fine at work, as well as NexGen P90 in other machine (btw: NexGen mb+CPU is selling for $185 here - seems to be cheap, although I haven't got as much of performance as I have expected. CPU benchmarks pointers, anyone?). I have no Intel CPU on all of my 7 PC boxes ;-) Don't know anything about Cyrix. Also, can someone comment on M1 or K5? p.s. overclocking AMD133 to 4*40 or even 3*50 does even better, although you have to find the right motherboard to do it and PCI cards working at this speed (40Mhz is usually no problem, but my lovely NCR doesn't do at 50 in one SiS mb - other (UMC) ok). Sometimes you can just set CPU to P24D, or maybe you have to invent your own jumper setting. And yes, it is worth the effort - the performance is _greatly_ improved. Stability - I haven't got any problems so far.