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From: Jeff Ehrenkrantz <jehrenkrantz@whyy.org>
To: Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU>
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On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Howard Lew wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Jeff Ehrenkrantz wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have an stories on using the AMD nx586 good or bad?
> > tnx..je
> > 
> 
> Are you referring to the AMD 5x86?  NexGen makes the Nx586.  Yep, this can
						^ that's the one.

> 
> As for the NexGen 586 PF110, I tried it with FreeBSD 2.1R and it works
> great.  No compatibility problems and is very fast.       
> 
That's what I was hoping for!
Thanks for getting back so quickly. Looks like time to redo the FreeBSD box
BTW Tiger has great prices for units with HS io/EIDE/PCI slots

..je