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From: Bob K <melange@yip.org>
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Subject: Re: 4.0/stable and Cyrix
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, spork wrote:

> Cyrix MII-333MHz chip.  Install was flawless, and it's been working great,
> but looking back at 'dmesg' I see that it thinks the processor is running
> at 250MHz.  BIOS reports it as 333 at startup (AMI winbios, btw).

> CPU: Cyrix 6x86MX (250.05-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "CyrixInstead"  Id = 0x601  Stepping = 1  DIR=0x1453
>   Features=0x80a135<FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,CX8,PGE,CMOV,MMX>
> 
> Any ideas?

Hmm.  Does Cyrix still "PR" (Pentium-Rate) their chips?  Might it be
possible that 333 is the PR rating?

I could be completely wrong, however.

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Bob <melange@yip.org>
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		in quotes" - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult sample



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