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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Supported CPU's
Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:10:01 GMT
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grail@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu (Giao Nguyen) writes:
> Is anyone aware of any difficulties in running FreeBSD on any CPU's besides
> the Intel ones? I'm looking at the Cyrix 6x86 chips but I want to make sure
> they'll work with my current configuration.

I've heard one success report for this one, though i've also heard
failure reports for the Cx586.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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