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To: Duncan Barclay <Duncan.Barclay@pa-consulting.com>
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Subject: Re: CYRIX Code in locore.s 
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Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 10:48:20 -0700
From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
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>I just got a DX2/66 to upgrade my DX33 with and had a
[...]
>a Cyrix chip. I have now discovered that they are the
[...]
>What I dod come across was a load of
>#ifdef CYRIX_CACHE_WORKING
>code which intreged me. I think I have worked out
[...]

Don't mess with that.  It's not for your chip.

That code is intended solely for making 486DLCs (& SLCs) work with
motherboards that don't correctly support cache invalidation.

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