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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com>
cc: Nicolas PONDEMER <pondemer@isty-info.uvsq.fr>,
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Subject: Re: Compatibility
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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Kenneth Ingham wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 10, 1997 at 02:56:18PM +0200, Nicolas PONDEMER wrote:
> > I want to install FreeBSD on my computer, but is FreeBSD
> > reliable (or simply OK) with AMD and Cyrix microprocessors ?
> > 
> > Especially K6.
> 
> I can't speak about the K6 since I don't have one, but I'm running
> FreeBSD on a Cyrix P120+ in one of my machines and it runs just fine.
> 
> The machine with the Cyrix processor is my network server (NIS, DNS, Web
> cache, router, email).  Even with all of those services, it is still
> idle most of the time.
I can add on to this.
My system is a Cyrix 6x86 166+, and it works great; as long as the fan on
the CPU (Radio Shack; what can I say?) keeps going, it keeps perking
along, and I've put it under some load abuse, including:
(simultaneously)
1) calculating pi
2) root 2
3) 5 netscape sessions
4) make buildworld
5) make'ing carious ports

And it said 'yeah, what else?'   ;-)

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