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Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!

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From: Marcus Leonard
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 03:22
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> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, PΓ©man 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


> Actually my son (age 11) runs Mandrake 7.02 on his Cyrix PR233 and it 
runs
> pretty good.  Granted he can't play Unreal Tournament on it, but Quake 
III runs
> pretty good on it with his TNT2.
> --
> moonie ;)

Mmm, ditto. I have a Cyrix 233, and whilst I have no illusions as to its 
lack of supremacy in the elite processor stakes, it certainly runs 
everything up to Mandy 7.1 quite happily, with a moth-eaten old ET6000 
card 'n' equally moth-eaten old ESS688 audio. No cause for swearing 
here... ;)
- marleo
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From: Marcus Leonard <mdl@netspace.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!
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