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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: which Unix to choose?
Date: 8 Nov 1996 12:53:39 GMT
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G Sumner Hayes <sumner+@CMU.EDU> wrote:

I usually tend to stay off this kind of threads, but i feel obliged to
post a correction:

>   If you're likely
> to want to move to non-Intel/AMD/Cyrix CPUs, stay away from FreeBSD.

AMD CPUs are fine.  For Cyrix CPUs, ``it depends''.  ISTR that all the
newer ones do also work well.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j