From: broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Bill Broadley) Subject: AMD386 and LINUX Date: 14 Aug 1992 16:11:12 GMT
As far as I know there are no documented bugs in the AMD 386.
If there were you would be sure that INTEL would brag about em.
I have run all the tests mentioned and has absolutely no problem
with my motherboard with AMD396-40.
I often use my machine hard and leave it processing for more then a
day.
Maybe the motherboards in question should really be 33 MHZ, and not pushed
so fast, and were not designed with the AMD in mind.
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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