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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!mimosa.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Re: AMD and Cyrix 486DX: any experience? Message-ID: <CJ5vvI.4Js@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Keywords: AMD Cyrix Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mimosa.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astronomy Department References: <2gdrs3$1qb@news.service.uci.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 14:50:06 GMT Lines: 27 In article <2gdrs3$1qb@news.service.uci.edu>, bob prohaska <rprohask@uci.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody have experience with either AMD or Cyrix 486DX cpu's? > I have a FreeBSD system running on an AMD 386-40 CPU. With the 256K cache it is quite speedy for a 386. Overall I have had no problems with the chip. I have a C&T FPU as well (40 MHZ) and have no problems with it and FreeBSD (or anything else for that matter). > Both are claimed to have coprocessors and be pin compatible with > Intel's parts; I'm shopping for a cpu to complete a "spare" system > to be made from extra parts, so performance isn't paramount, but > it's has to work 8-)] Don't think you can lose with AMD. In fact you might do much better over Intel products. Good luck! -- - pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu ^ | James J. Pitts - - Most people are sheep. /@\ | IU Physics Dept - - Only a select few are fit to rule. / \ | Voice: 812-855-8247 - - We are The Bavarian Illuminati. /_____\ | FAX : 812-855-5533 -