Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 11:16:01 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: David.Leask@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Leask) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, David.Leask@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: Cx486 DX2-80 Message-ID: <199605200146.LAA20368@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <E0uLELU-0005dN-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk> from "David Leask" at May 19, 96 08:40:51 pm
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David Leask stands accused of saying: > > I am looking at buying a (second-hand) PC with a Cx486 DX2-80 CPU. > When I checked through the archives I found a post from Jordan > saying: > > >> 4) Does FreeBSD support Cyrix processors? > > > > Yes, but I'd hardly recommend one! > > This was from early 1995. > > Is this advice still valid? (and, roughly speaking, why?) > Should I keep looking? Older Cyrix CPUs were buggy and had undersize on-chip caches. The DX2/80 IIRC was not one of these. And upgrading the CPU in such a system is a relatively cheap exercise. > -David Leask. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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