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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu>
To: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>
cc: Duncan Orthner <p6orthne@cquest.utoronto.ca>,
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Subject: Re: What CPU_type for Cyrix 686 166+?
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On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Khetan Gajjar wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Duncan Orthner wrote:
> 
> >
> >     Hi, I tried compiling a kernel w/ "I686_CPU" but it wouldn't boot.
> >The only thing I could get it to recognize is a 486! Is there another
> >solution to this?
> 
> Nope. You have to live with it as a "486" - but it's still pretty darn
> fast!
> Khetan Gajjar         [ http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan] 

Yeah, the same problem pops up in all OS's.
Intel has some proprietary commands in the Pentium that says 'Hey, I'm a 
Pentium!!', so a 6x86 (I also have a 6x86 166+) will always readout as a 
486.
A really really really FAST 486.
I think my DOS-based benchmark put mine down as a 486 running at 230-some 
MHz.

:-}  MAtt