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Date:      Fri, 19 Apr 1996 15:28:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mike Pritchard <mpp>
To:        hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew)
Cc:        dennis@etinc.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AMD '586 Any opinions?
Message-ID:  <199604192228.PAA08216@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960419144728.3173A-100000@marmite.Stanford.EDU> from "Howard Lew" at Apr 19, 96 02:56:17 pm

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Howard Lew wrote:
> 
> uhmmmm.... should work, but the I believe the AMD 5x86-133 runs at 
> about Pentium 75 speed.  Probably would be probed as a 486 though...
> 
> Similar question... has anyone tested the Cyrix 586-120 for FreeBSD?

My roommate just upgraded his machine to a Cyrix 586-120, and
his previously installed FreeBSD (2.1-RELEASE) seems to work
just fine (although he started getting those stray IRQ 7 messages).
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@freebsd.org
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"



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