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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.uwa.edu.au!garion.it.com.au!garion.it.com.au!postmaster From: srd@garion.it.com.au (Stephen Darragh) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD runs on all 486 chip types Date: 2 Jul 1994 23:55:04 +0800 Organization: Informed Technology Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2v42ko$lv8@garion.it.com.au> References: <2v08ft$q1k@raffles.technet.sg> <2v1o4q$gj4@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: garion.it.com.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Anthony Monroe (tmonroe@soda.berkeley.edu) wrote: : In article <2v08ft$q1k@raffles.technet.sg>, : Joseph Doo <joe@solomon.technet.sg> wrote: : > : >I'm out to get a 486 system. I've read the faq but there's no : >mention of chip specifics. Do i assume any chip is fine? : [...chips, mfrs, and prices...] : I am NOT an Intel junkie, but you will most likely have the fewest problems : if you get an Intel chip. I have a friend who got a Cyrix chip, and he : complains all the time about how wonderfully bad it is. As for AMD, I : couldn't tell ya. Only one machine here has a genuine Intel chip. The machine running FreeBSD has an AMD 486 and it's fine. -- Stephen Darragh Informed Technology Wembley Downs, Western Australia +61-9-245-2279 srd@it.com.au sdarragh@tartarus.uwa.edu.au root@it.com.au itadm@uniwa.uwa.edu.au