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daniel49

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years ago I swapped out my old pentium 133 for a cyrix overdrive processor 200mmx socket 5 as I recall. Now that machine is basically gathering dust . Had thought about using it as a machine to play around with a free system but am pretty sure linux is not compatible with that processor, as I remember asking an Evergreen technoligies tech that years ago.
your thoughts
thx dan
 
Why wouldn't Linux be compatible? OpenBSD doesn't list it specifically, but has a couple of Cyrix processors on the supported list (here).
 
i don't remember exactly I just remember asking and he said it wouldn't this has been quite a few years ago.

supposing pc98 did work would it be a nightmare trying to find drivers then or how does that part tend to go originally this was an old packard bell
mb pb600
combo sound/modem card
network card
i think I got a usb 1 card in there
an 8 mb graphics card cuz originally had 1mb on board
plain cd drive
floppy
2 hd ide...one 1.2gb one 30 gb had to use an bios overlay on that because the old pheonix bios didn't support drives over lets see what was it....maybe 6gb I don't remember now.
 

I got Redhat 5.1 to hobble on it with Gnome (Redhat 5.x was crap), and my best buddy got Slack (can?t remember which version) to run on his Cyrix PR120.
 
I wouldn't see why Linux wouldn't work. And AFAIK PC98 is a japanese standard and shouldn't have anything to do with Cyrix specifically.
 
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