Subject: Re: AMD or Cyrix?
To: Phil Knaack <flipk@ncremp.ag.iastate.edu>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/05/1996 09:53:56
>>>> Perhaps the Cyrix probe should be changed to simply print "CPU: CYRIX
>>>> 486", or something like that, instead.  Does anyone else see the DLC
>>>> message with a Cyrix true-DX or 5x86 (or 6x86)?

>>>Yes, I see this with a Cryix DX2/80.  The chip itself runs just fine,

>>I would also be interested if there is anyone running any Cyrix chip
>>where they don't see the DLC message.

>	My 486SLC2/66 reports as an i486DX chip.. this is the machine
>where the kernel would not boot at all for several months between 
>NetBSD 1.0 and 1.1 .. but of course it has worked great since.

Oh, don't you just love consistency in design...

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