Subject: Re: Pentium Pro config option?
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/17/1997 01:12:30
> > How about Cyrix "pentium" chips? My 1.2 system reports the CPU as a 486 :(
>
> That's becuase "they are". :-)
>
> NetBSD-current has some better CPU detection code.. It should report
> your Cyrix as a "Cyrix 5whatever", but it's still a 486-class CPU.
I meant the 6x86 chips. Aren't they fully Pentium compatible?
-jm
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