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- From: broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Bill Broadley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: AMD386 and LINUX
- Message-ID: <4759@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 16:11:12 GMT
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- Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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- As far as I know there are no documented bugs in the AMD 386.
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- If there were you would be sure that INTEL would brag about em.
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- I have run all the tests mentioned and has absolutely no problem
- with my motherboard with AMD396-40.
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- I often use my machine hard and leave it processing for more then a
- day.
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- Maybe the motherboards in question should really be 33 MHZ, and not pushed
- so fast, and were not designed with the AMD in mind.
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- I have heard that the AMD 386 is faster then an INTEL 386 at the
- same clock, so maybe the motherboards are depending on the delays in the
- INTEL 386 which is a pretty flakey thing to do. Anyways I am very
- happy with my AMD386-40, I recently added a Cyrix 387, nothing
- seemed to change except floating point speed. I.e. 1.0+ Mflops with
- the flops.c benchmark.
-
- Just one more datapoint.
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- Bill 1st> Broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu
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