> >    I presume the answer is "yes", so I guess the binaries installed by
> >    sysinst from the distribution's *.tgz files differ depending on which
> >    processor is in the machine?
> 
> Not by default. All binaries for 1.5/i386, including packages from the
> pkgsrc collection, should therefore run on any 1.5/i386. You can build

all binaries compiled with -mpentiumpro RUNS on any i386!