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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp>
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Subject: Re: AMD '586 Any opinions?
To: hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew)
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 15:28:42 -0700 (PDT)
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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"