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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!replicant.csci.unt.edu!jackson From: jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cyrix P166+ CPU patch - is it available? Date: 17 Jan 1997 04:38:17 GMT Organization: University of North Texas, Denton Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5bmvnp$5dj@hermes.acs.unt.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.93-heb-2.07.970116185536.7861A-100000@actcom.co.il> <5bmd7a$ni9@darkstar.ucsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33938 In article <5bmd7a$ni9@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, Thomas Gunnar Sparks <tgs@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote: > From what I understand, Cyrix has crappy math coprocessing Why would > anyone buy one? other than its cheap I guess.. For the jobs I run there is little floating point math. For me a Cyrix CPU was both cheaper and faster than a Pentium. Under FreeBSD it does probe as a '486 but it still performs great. I built a kernel that would identify the CPU as a Pentium class CPU but it crashed while booting with a supervisor violation. Perhaps in the future FreeBSD will better support the 6x86 CPU's but for the time being it does seem like a good choice to me. -- Bruce Jackson b.a.jackson@ieee.org http://replicant.csci.unt.edu/~jackson/