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From: Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu>
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Subject: 'uname -m' not i586?
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hello everyone!

does FreeBSD 2.2.2 support pentium? in linux, you can specify the machine
with -DCPU=596 (compiling the kernel) and i586 would appear if you execute
'uname -m'. in my FreeBSD 2.2.2 box, machine="i386"; cpu="I586_CPU".