Generic Install

[Mike McCarty]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
>>On Thursday 02 Feb 2006 16:45, tsimi at speakeasy.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>That's my understanding. But AMD produced a processor called
>>>the 586, which is a 486 class processor.
>>>
>>
>>As a long-time AMD user, I can only say that I do not remember such a 
>>processor, and I don't think it existed.  Their names were always very 
>>different from Intel ones.
>>
>>Anne
>>
> 
> I think what they are talking about was the Am5x86 processor.

My motherboard docs said AMD586.

> The Am5x86 is actually a 486DX (the fastest 486 around) that

Actually, it is a functional clone of the 486DX.

> delivers performance superior to the Pentium-75 on a modern 486
> motherboard. That's why AMD named it Am5x86-P75.
> It is a clock-quadrupling CPU so it runs internally at 133 MHz on
> the usual 33.33MHz bus-speed. The 16 Kb Level 1 (on-chip) cache

I overclocked mine to 40MHz bus, 160MHz internally, and it outruns
my Pentium 90MHz machine for many jobs.

> supports both the Write-Through (read cache) and the Write-Back
> (read and write cache) mode.

I never use write-back, alway write-through. Nice machine. But
I need to replace the battery backup on the motherboard. I have
it on an UPS, and it runs 24/7.

Mike
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