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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.cloud9.net!cloud9.net!tls From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: AMD DX2/80 w/ NetBSD? Date: 21 Dec 1994 20:37:25 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3da3m5$6bb@news.cloud9.net> References: <3d71n3$2hp@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <MICHAELV.94Dec20142450@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.net In article <MICHAELV.94Dec20142450@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: > >Here is my experience: > >I'm running an AMD 486DX2/80 in a NetBSD-1.0 system as I type. It's a >kick-butt CPU. No problems, no regrets. I have it plugged into a >Nice (that's the brand) Super-EISA motherboard. Works excellent. > >I help run a NetBSD machine on campus. It's a Zenith mini-tower with >an Intel 486DX2/66 and a PCI bus. It runs flawlessly. > >So, I guess the combination of a DX2/80 and a fairly new PCI chipset >should work ok. Of course, every motherboard is different, so I can't >guarantee you anything. If you find a 486 PCI motherboard that can clock the CPU at 40MHz, let me know. I was on the verge of buying one of those great ASUS motherboards with built-in NCR SCSI, when I found out that they couldn't handle a CPU clock higher than 33MHz; haven't found any other 486 PCI motherboards that can, though I haven't been looking too hard. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@cloud9.net Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead, calling you an angel.