> Hi!
>
> > It is claimed that NexGen CPUs were never shipped:
> >
> >
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/20/179
> >
> > Also, the kernel support for these chips has been broken for
> > a long time, the code intended to support NexGen thereby being
> > essentially dead.
>
> Are you sure it never shipped? Wikipedia seems to suggest it did ship.
>
>
http://www.cpu-info.com/index2.php?mainid=Nx586&page=5
>
> ...FPU for nexgen was never shipped, that implies that CPU did ship.
>
> Pavel