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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!agate!news.ucsc.edu!ese.UCSC.EDU!not-for-mail From: tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cyrix P166+ CPU patch - is it available? Date: 16 Jan 1997 23:22:18 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 11 Message-ID: <5bmd7a$ni9@darkstar.ucsc.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.93-heb-2.07.970116185536.7861A-100000@actcom.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: ese.ucsc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-16colors PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34137 : I want to buy a computer based on Cyrix P166+ chip. : I heard that Cyrix P166+ is not recognized by FreeBSD as i586 : but as i486. : I know that for Linux kernel Cyrix patch is available. : Is there some similar patch for FreeBSD? : BTW what FreeBSD core team thinks about Cyrix - I saw that J"org : was not really enthusiastic about it. From what I understand, Cyrix has crappy math coprocessing Why would anyone buy one? other than its cheap I guess..