Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 7 May 1996 15:48:54 -0700 (PDT) | From | "B. James Phillippe" <> | Subject | Nx586 support (was Re: Nx586 work fine..) |
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Hello Everyone,
I recently had the opportunity to use an Nx586-based machine with Linux. It was the non-FPU version (and the PCI didn't work. Any explanation, or was the board prolly defective?). I was significantly impressed. The speed was absolutely blinding (compared to my 486/100 w/32MB). And stable, too. I brought the load up to about 100 before giving up trying to crash it. Anyhow, I know about the cpuid situation; that it is detected as a 386. And I know that there is a patch to enable Nx586 detection. My question is: if the patch exists, why isn't it part of the standard kernel?
Second, I am wanting to know if (this is slightly off topic) now is a *bad* time to buy a NexGen (to run Linux on). Anyway, I'm really interested in the price/performance combo of a NexGen system to run Linux on. Thanks for any info.
-Bryan -- # B. James Phillippe # System Administrator, eternity.aa.net # # bryan@eternity.aa.net (see http://eternity.aa.net/~bryan) # # System Technician, SSC., Inc. (Linux Journal; www.ssc.com) # # Specializing in UNIX, Linux, Internet and networking stuff #
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