From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 18:56:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA05488 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 18:56:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-5.mail.demon.net (relay-5.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.48]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA05457; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 18:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk by relay-5.mail.demon.net id ad00741; 10 Jul 96 22:51 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa00835; 10 Jul 96 22:40 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA02540; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 19:36:54 GMT Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 19:36:54 GMT Message-Id: <199607101936.TAA02540@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: black@mr.net CC: gpalmer@freebsd.org, drizzt@shadowlands.com, questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199607092037.PAA07392@galileo.mr.net> (message from Ben Black on Tue, 9 Jul 1996 15:37:41 -0500 (CDT)) Subject: Re: Multi-processors Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Ohh yea one more question. I noticed you have support for the > > > Cyrinx chips. I was looking at the Cyrinx 166 and it is 100 bucks > > > cheaper than the P-166. Have you seen any problems with the Cyrinx > > > chips? > > > > Dunno. Other readers of -questions care to comment? > > > haven't used any of the cyrix chips personally, but i have heard lots of > complaints about problems with cyrix chips running 2.1R. YMMV. Weren't these 486SLC Cyrix chips (or whatever they were called?) I thought the more recent Cyrix ones were OK. Anyway, I don't know much about them either - the best place to look for this kind of info is on the archive for the freebsd-hardware list. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/