From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 14 04:01:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA21254 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 04:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.winc.com (root@home.winc.com [204.178.182.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA21247; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 04:01:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.aristar.com (slip125.winc.com [204.178.182.125]) by home.winc.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05844; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 07:00:59 -0400 Message-ID: <32621DC1.41C67EA6@aristar.com> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 07:02:25 -0400 From: "Matthew A. Gessner" Organization: Aristar, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roddie Hasan CC: hackers , FreeBSD Hardware group Subject: Re: AMD 586 runs FreeBSD just FINE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Roddie Hasan wrote: > > Hi Matt, > > > I just bought one of those them there fancy shmancy CPU upgrades. I > > had an Intel 486/DX266 and upgraded to a AMD 586/133 from Ganberry via > > Micro Warehouse. For $140 I have a machine that runs about 2.5 x > > faster! > > I'm thinking of throwing one of those boards in my machine. (I currently > have a DX266 also). What did you set your cpu type to in the kernel > settings? I would assume 486, but I want to make sure. > > Ciao, Roddie I didn't change A THING! I just stuck the new CPU in the socket and rebooted. Pretty awesome. -- Matthew Gessner, Computer Scientist, Aristar, Inc. 302 N. Cleveland-Massillon Rd. Akron, OH 44333 Voice (330) 668-2267, Fax (330) 668-2961