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Re: Cyrix/IBM processors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Lampert)
Thu Nov 14 21:48:19 1996
From: Scott Lampert <fortunato@altair.ioa.com>
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:45:55 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961114113216.16258A-100000@wiretap.lakewood.nj.us> from "Leigh Koven" at Nov 14, 96 11:34:06 am
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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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You certainly can't bash them as far as price goes, but bear in mind
the floating point doesn't even remotely come close to a true Pentium. For
many people this isn't a critical part of the system, however with all this
high power graphical stuff becoming very common it may well be a lot more
important in the future.
-Scott
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