From: dfox@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us (David Fox) Subject: Re: Cyrix 486DLC Processor Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1993 02:04:56 GMT
Ralph Sims (ralphs@halcyon.com) wrote:
: williams@cs.curtin.edu.au (Bradley Williamson) writes:
: >Could someone out there please tell me if Linux SLS/SLW has any problems with the 486SLC/DLC processor that goes unnoticed on an Intel.
: I have linux with SLIP, etc. running on a Cyrix 486/40 laptop. No
: problems that I can attribute the the processor. I did have to
: disable the co-processor functions and use the emulator, however.
: No biggie.
For me that would be a 'biggie'. Are you saying that the Cyrix, since
you couldn't use the floating point, is not compatible? (I thought that
the Cyrix doesn't have an integrated FPU, so if Linux detects it as a 486,
but doesn't see that it is missing an FPU, that's not _that_ of a big
deal.)
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