Re: [2.1.105] Cyrix 6x86 reduced to 486

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:13:47 +0100 (GMT/BST)


On 10 Jun 1998, Jan Vroonhof wrote:

> Any reason why Cyrix chips have CPUID disabled on default?

It's only the original 6x86 that doesn't have CPUID enabled
by default. Back when it was produced CPUID was still a fairly
new Intel thing and I suspect the feeling was that there might
be broken code out there that assumed anything that responded
to CPUID was a Pentium.

Mike

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