From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 24 13:34:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F2237BBA2 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:34:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@mail.hiwaay.net) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e3OKY4a30522; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:34:04 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:34:04 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly Message-Id: <200004242034.e3OKY4a30522@mail.hiwaay.net> To: James.Bishop@trw.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NexGen Processor Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "James Bishop" writes: > I have a NexGen processor. It is a 586 class pentium clone. Will FreeBSD run > on it? It was marketed as a "586 class" but featurewise its a 386. I ran one for a year or two without a hitch. Remember the NexGen 586 doesn't have an FPU so you need the FP emulator option in the kernel. Thinking a little more about it, there might have been an FPU version the last few weeks before AMD bought out NexGen and liquidated everything but the core CPU team and used the NexGen for their K6 and K7 lines. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ====================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message