Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:18:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: adrian@apic.net (Adrian Carter) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD 586 CPU Message-ID: <199704102018.OAA14032@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970409152000.0081a1d0@mail.apic.net> from "Adrian Carter" at Apr 9, 97 03:20:00 pm
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Adrian Carter opined:
> We run 2 AMD 5x86/133's, [...] It is compiled as both CPU options I486
> and I586, being a production machine, I am reluctant to see if it works as
> I586 alone.
The AMD 5x86 is a 486-class processor and thus needs "I486" cpu support
in the kernel.
The AMD K5 processors are pentium-class processors and require "I586"
cpu kernel support.
I've not used and 5x86s, but now have 3 machines running on K5s and feel
the performance is quite good. The K5/133 outperforms the P5/133 in
everything we've tried under FreeBSD, and is a fair bit cheaper. YMMV.
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"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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