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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IBM P166+ (CYRIX) an  i486_MACHINE ?
Date: 30 Oct 1996 06:55:04 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corp.
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In <54s8gj$481@amd40.wecs.org>, duane@amd40.wecs.org (Duane Eddingfield) writes:
>Willem Wals (walsw@usoft.nl) wrote:
>: kernel configuration file. After reboot I got a kernel-panic stating I
>: was unable to start due to unrecognized cpu. Rebooted from old kernel

>
>I had exactly the same experience with an AMD 5x586 chip. Had to
>set it back to i486 and it worked fine.
>

The 5x586 is a 486 chip multiplied by 5 times.  33x5=133 according to AMD's
logic I guess. ;-)  This is explained on AMD's website.