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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
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: 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..