From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun May 19 18:33:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA13635 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 1996 18:33:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA13630 for ; Sun, 19 May 1996 18:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA20368; Mon, 20 May 1996 11:16:02 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605200146.LAA20368@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Cx486 DX2-80 To: David.Leask@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Leask) Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 11:16:01 +0930 (CST) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, David.Leask@cl.cam.ac.uk In-Reply-To: from "David Leask" at May 19, 96 08:40:51 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[