From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 19 16:34:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA11300 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marmite.Stanford.EDU (marmite.Stanford.EDU [171.65.76.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA11274 Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (hlew@localhost) by marmite.Stanford.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.4) id QAA03374; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:33:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:33:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: Mike Pritchard cc: dennis@etinc.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD '586 Any opinions? In-Reply-To: <199604192228.PAA08216@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Mike Pritchard wrote: > 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" > stray irq 7 messages? Is it probed correctly? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: (415) 759-8584 - U.S. calls returned within 1 business day Email: info@shoppersnet.com - Fastest response time (usually within hours) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || Shoppers Network Cyrix/Pentium Benchmarks on our WWW site || PO BOX 16627 Email - info@shoppersnet.com || San Francisco, CA 94116 Latest prices - finger info@shoppersnet.com || (415) 759-8584 WWW - http://www2.shoppersnet.com =============================> WWW - http://www.shoppersnet.com/shopping ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~