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- From: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Cyrix "486" cpu really compatible ?
- Message-ID: <85612@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 08:59:29 GMT
- References: <1992Nov26.160158.29947@gremlin.muug.mb.ca> <Bz26M0.7ED@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Dec15.212011.2940@gremlin.muug.mb.ca>
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- Reply-To: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- According to charles@gremlin.muug.mb.ca (Charles):
- >You're quite close minded. Whoever said anything about BSD386?
- >But since you mentioned it, what about all the thousands of people still
- >running Unix SysVR3.2 variants? Has IBM or MS pledged to turn this cache
- >on with OS/2 or NT?
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- Cyrix has produced an OS/2 driver to enable the 486D/SLC onboard cache.
- It's really a rather trivial piece of code. I'm sure that if Cyrix could
- set up a system with a particular OS, it wouldn't take them but a day to
- get a cache enabling driver written.
- --
- John Bodnar : Friends don't let friends use Windows!
- The University of Texas at Austin : But I'm still waiting for Microsoft
- Internet: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu : Solitaire NT! Heaven forbid, another
- UUCP: ....!cs.utexas!ut-ccwf!jbodnar : productive user of OS/2 v2.0!
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