Cyrix 166+ processor support

John Ireland (jireland@Jesus.oxford.ac.uk)
Mon, 28 Apr 1997 15:43:27 +0100

I run Redhat 4.1 on a 486 but will be upgrading to a Pentium (or clone)
system soon. Since the kernel likes int16 for floating point ops and
'hlt' instructions, does anyone know whether the Cyrix 166+ (and 200+) is
compatible enough with an Intel Pentium to run happily? (Since I suspect
that this is the kind of area where any incompatibilities are likely to
show up.)

John

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