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From: matt@mec.edu (Matt Bancroft)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86 motherboard
Date: 15 Jan 1997 01:12:19 GMT
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ATL R&D (vijay.konkimalla@ed.atl.sita.int) wrote:
: Hi,

: Is there anyone out there using Cyrix 6x86 motherboard and running FreeBSD?
: I would like your feedback before upgrading my system.

: Thank you in advance.

It ran fine on my Cyrix 6x86 150MHz machine with 32meg of ram. After it wiped 
out my dos partition i switched to BSDI. You may want to took at accelerated X
from XInside (http://www.xinside.com) if you plan on using X Windows with 
motif or a video card that isnt supported by XFree86.... 

: (PS. would appreciate your reply by e-mail)

: --Vijay

: (vijayk@ed.atl.sita.int)