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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!boulder!cnsnews!dailey From: dailey@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Dailey Aaron) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: non Intel processor compatability Date: 24 Oct 1994 18:08:44 GMT Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 11 Distribution: world Message-ID: <DAILEY.94Oct24120844@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: rintintin.colorado.edu I'm looking to buy a 486 PC to run FreeBSD, and it seems that I can save some money by buying a non Intel CPU. The two that have showed up are the Cyrix 486 40 and IBM 486 SLC2/66 Blue Lightning with an ITT math processor. I ask because I think there was a problem with the AMD DLX chips, but I never saw that documented; only when someone sent in a problem report was it a known problem. So is there any reason these CPUs shouldn't work. Is anyone actually using them?