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From: James Harper
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00

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Bruce Campbell (campbell.bruce.ba@bhp.com.au) wrote:
: I am about to embark on purchasing a 686 for my linux box. I 
: visited the Cyrix web page which has a compatible OS list. 
: Linux is there (although it gives no details of version or 
: quirks)


: Hope this helps
: (ps. If you have a problem, tell me now before I buy!!!!!:)

686 doesn't run quake nearly as well as the equivilent pentium,
due to the poor performance of the fpu... or so most people say

that would go for any floating point math intensive tasks also

james

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From: loon@redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au (James Harper)
Subject: Re: 686
Date: 1996/06/28
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