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From: dave@telco-nac.com (David Cornejo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Cyrix 486DLC & 386/NetBSD: Any point?
Date: 7 Jul 1993 15:38:52 -0700
Organization: Telco Systems Network Access Corp
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Has anybody tried to use a Cyrix 486DLC with 386BSD or NetBSD
successfully? If so was there any real improvement in performance?

Also, besides the 486DLC missing the math coprocessor, what are
the differences between the Cyrix & Intel parts? Can `486 code
run on it?

Thanks for any responses...


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