Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:42:01 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz>, Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyrix CPUs, was: Re: Repeatable crash from nautilus2 Message-ID: <20021214134201.A40850@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <3DFB11AA.9D94BD6B@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 03:10:34AM -0800 References: <20021213021012.61714.qmail@web40303.mail.yahoo.com> <004901c2a25c$0c381c50$0301a8c0@prime> <1039756076.12023.5.camel@localhost> <3DF974C6.3070901@gmx.net> <1039764208.12365.12.camel@localhost> <3DFB11AA.9D94BD6B@softweyr.com>
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On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 03:10:34AM -0800, Wes Peters wrote:
> James Pole wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 18:48, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > > James Pole wrote:
> > > > I think the fact Cyrix isn't very popular these days
> > >
> > > Ain't the VIA C3-CPUs everyone wants likes so much CYRIX-Technology, too?
> >
> > They have less than one percent of the market. I have, personally, never
> > seen a Cyrix/VIA-powered computer over the past few years.
>
> I saw lots of them up until February of this year, when I was no longer
> making itty bitty routers. They're quite common in small embedded boxes
> meant for broadband routers, etc. OpenBSD seems to run fine on them. ;^)
like this one:
dmwb ~: dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE-p5 #3: Thu Nov 14 23:37:29 CET 2002
root@styx.wbnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STYX
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Cyrix GXm (300.68-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "CyrixInstead" Id = 0x540 DIR=0x8144 Stepping=8 Revision=1
real memory = 31981568 (31232K bytes)
avail memory = 28049408 (27392K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc032e000.
Using $PIR table, 3 entries at 0xc00fd880
Works just fine, this is a mini-PC the size of a CDROM drive. Really
neat, 3 rl(4) fastEthernet ports, VGA, kb/mouse, 2x USB. Draws 10 Watts.
Is my firewall between DSL, Wlan & fixed internal net.
Pictures/specs available on request.
W/
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