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Re: Cyrix/IBM processors

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Koven)
Thu Nov 14 12:10:05 1996

Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:34:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Leigh Koven <compulov@wiretap.lakewood.nj.us>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Wierdl Mate wrote:

> It is of course of great interest since the Cyrix precessors are much
> cheaper than Pentiums. 
> Anyways, so the present status is that Cyrix is not suppoted by Linux?

On the contrary... they work as well, if not better than their Pentium
counterparts. I've been using it on my system without the patch for a few
months now with no problem. I added the patch and there was a small
improvement in speed.

Just my $0.02.

-Leigh

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