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Date:      Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:48:04 -0600
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6x86, Pentium and optimization...
Message-ID:  <33316A44.794BDF32@iaces.com>
References:  <3.0.1.32.19970321170239.006c1544@scotty.masternet.it>

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Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone.
> If I use the I486_CPU with a cyrix cpu do I loose the optimization for the
> pentium class processor ?
> 
> Why not include a tag like I6x86_CPU ? The code must not so difficult and I
> think there is on the Cyrix site..

Well, yes. But it's not a big deal. The Cryix is a pentium class
machine, but
it doesn't have all of the chipset commands that the Pentium has. It's
just
really fast and does the same sorts of things.


> Just wondering...
> 
> Regards...
> Gianmarco ( gmarco@masternet.it )
> "Unix expert since 1997"
> 
> My home page: http://www2.masternet.it/~gmarco
> Server page: http://www2.masternet.it/

-- 
The baby threw up all over my dress and we had to go home first to
change.
--from "Excuses, Excuses" *the* compendium of excuses by Leigh W.
Rutledge



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