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#! rnews 2169 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!crc-news.doc.ca!netfs.dnd.ca!ub!news.kei.com!eff!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.fibr.net!usenet From: Rob Snow <rsnow@txdirect.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: AMD DX4's running FreeBSD, DOS/WIN, etc. Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 13:17:14 -0600 Organization: G3 Research, Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <30A253BA.2D030095@txdirect.net> References: <46o07l$rs@su102w.ess.harris.com> <imvioybc2a.fsf@brownlee.cs.uidaho.edu> <47s3dc$ja7@nntp.interaccess.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: oasis.txdirect.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b2 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) Jason Kuri wrote: > > : I'm thinking about upgrading my DX2/66 motherboard (Intel CPU) to an > : AMD DX4 120MHz board (I can't make the Pentium jump yet because of all > : the VLB cards I have). Intel's high end DX4 runs at a 100MHz. Has > : anybody who runs multiple OS ' (or heck, just FreeBSD which is just > : fine) have any bad experineces with AMD CPUs, or know of any > : incompatibility problems? I appreciate the info. > > I have been running on an AMD 486dx4/100 for several months now. It has > worked flawlessly. I have never had so much as a hiccup on it. I have > run OS/2, DOS, and am still running FreeBSD on it and it works great. > > Jay K. Ditto here. I've got my AMD DX4-100 running in 2x mode with a 50MHz VLB and it hasn't cause any problems. BTW, I was gone for a while recently and my box ran 21 days and was running INN, iij-ppp, httpd and several thousand processes every day. The only hiccup I had was that I ran out of kernel file table space on the final day. (Needed to change the default maxusers from 10) -- ______________________________________________________________________ Rob Snow Powered by FreeBSD rsnow@txdirect.net http://www.freebsd.org