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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: AMD 486DX CPU w/386BSD/FreeBDS/NetBSD
Date: 10 Jun 94 16:44:31 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <john.54.771263150@gab.unt.edu> john@gab.unt.edu (John Booth) writes:

>Is anyone using one of the AMD 486DX processors with one of the Free unices?
>I am currently using NetBSD .9B and am going to put a new machine up, but am 
>not sure if I can use a AMD chip reliably.

I know of several people using AMD and Cyrix chips with NetBSD
sucessfully.  I would assume they'd work fine with FreeBSD also.

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 Michael L. VanLoon                 Iowa State University Computation Center
    michaelv@iastate.edu                    Project Vincent Systems Staff
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