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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Pentium Pro Machines?
Date: 9 Dec 1995 09:53:01 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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References: <4a6tbk$gmv@nyx.eos.hokudai.ac.jp> <4a89ld$4go@agate.berkeley.edu> <30C7E86B.15FB7483@ALDAN.star89.galstar.com>
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Mikhail Teterin <mi@ALDAN.star89.galstar.com> wrote:
]
] BTW, Cyrix claims, that their 686 running on 120MHz is about same as
] P6 on 180MHz... And you can use the cheaper motherboard...
Have their engineers figured out how to maintain cache coherency
yet? Last Cyrix I owned kept stale data in its cache after a
bus mastering DMA...
Actually, I know they haven't, but they bought "the secret of
the stale cache data" (sounds like a Hardy Boys Mystery(tm))
when they bought the "Blue Lightning(tm)" masks from IBM.
I guess the real question is what masks they used...
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.