Subject: Re: identifycpu() on a Cyrix 6x86
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/02/1998 09:32:13
> > True, but it's disconcerting for a user, who may not know anything
> > about these distinctions, to have his nice "Pentium-like" box called a
> > 486.
> 
> If it's confusing to users, perhaps I should just remove the XX-class
> message, it isn't of much use anyway.

If you remove that, then you make it harder for people to pick the
right CPU class option to enable in their config files...

While that doesn't really matter as much for late-model CPUs, you
don't want to get rid of those options...


cgd