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Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!

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From: moonie
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 00:00
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>Romanator wrote:
>> 
>> It's a well known fact that Cyrix chips are overclocked. I've had more
>> crashes with all sorts of non linux programs because of the overclocking
>> of the Cyrix CPU.
>> 
>> 
>> "PοΏ½man Malekzadeh" wrote:
>> >
>> > I think you are mistaken
>> > Cyrix is a piece of shit!!
>> > I will bet you if you try another CPU it will work like a charm
>> > Natalie Foster <no@such.email.com> wrote in message
>> > news:39E55685.2803632A@such.email.com...
>> > > Installation of Mandrake 7.1 on a Cyrix 100 ??
>> > > let me warn you, its going to really..really crawl
>> > >
>
>Mandrake used to be compiled using pgcc, a compiler optimized
>for the Pentium.  Maybe Cyrix's aren't compatible enough.

I had it running just fine on my sons Cyrix PR233 (games wouldn't play well, Q3
and UT, so I upgraded to a K6-2/500)
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