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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:05:18 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        stesin@gu.net (Andrew Stesin)
Cc:        mgessner@aristar.com, roddie@ki.net, hackers@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AMD 586 runs FreeBSD just FINE
Message-ID:  <199610141305.IAA23662@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961014144558.3135B-100000@creator.gu.kiev.ua> from "Andrew Stesin" at Oct 14, 96 02:47:45 pm

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> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Matthew A. Gessner wrote:
> 
> > I didn't change A THING!  I just stuck the new CPU in the socket and
> > rebooted.  Pretty awesome.
> 
> 	I think that this approach isn't too general. When a week
> 	ago I replaced an old non-Enhanced AMD 2/66 with AMD 5x133,
> 	I was forced to change many jumper settings on the board,
> 	according to it's manual...

That's odd (I think)...  I upgraded an ASUS SP3G board from a DX2/66
to a DX5/133 without a single jumper change...  from the SP3G's point
of view it was a _real_ fast DX2/66  :-)

Dunno.

... JG



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