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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!tmonroe From: tmonroe@soda.berkeley.edu (Anthony Monroe) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD runs on all 486 chip types Date: 1 Jul 1994 18:43:38 GMT Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley Lines: 14 Message-ID: <2v1o4q$gj4@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <2v08ft$q1k@raffles.technet.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu In article <2v08ft$q1k@raffles.technet.sg>, Joseph Doo <joe@solomon.technet.sg> wrote: > >I'm out to get a 486 system. I've read the faq but there's no >mention of chip specifics. Do i assume any chip is fine? [...chips, mfrs, and prices...] I am NOT an Intel junkie, but you will most likely have the fewest problems if you get an Intel chip. I have a friend who got a Cyrix chip, and he complains all the time about how wonderfully bad it is. As for AMD, I couldn't tell ya. Tony