Subject: Re: AMD DX4/100 ok w/ NetBSD
To: Luke Mewburn <lm@melb.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>
From: mark thompson <thompson@coyote.csusm.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/22/1995 16:43:57
At 8:07 AM 3/23/95, Luke Mewburn wrote:
>> I'm looking at putting together a NetBSD system around a ASUS SP3G and
>> an AMD 486DX4/100.
>
>Seriously though, I've had an AMD 486dx40 since they were released,
>with nary a problem. Sure, the occasional reboot, but I've _always_
>been able to attribute them to other things (like known flaky drivers
>at that time, etc). I haven't heard any bad reports of the AMD dx4/100
>series either. And AMD have a good rep for making chips in general
>(CPUs, ethernet, etc, etc, etc.)
For what (little) it is worth, I have a cyrix clone and nary a complaint.
I also have the 'award' bios that everyone warns you away from. It works
fine too.
-mark