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From: Zimbalt
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 00:00

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joseph langley wrote:
> 
> Two important things here: Neither Cyrix chips nor AMD's use the
> same architecture as the intel chips, and while this does not affect the
> performance of a properly conifgured system, it does make some impact on
> the overall perofrmance.  The other thing is that on both the AMD and
> Cyrix will not take full advantage of pentium optimizations. I'm not
> completely aware of the M2 architecture but I know that the K6 is not
> based on the x86 instruction set.
HA HA HA HA! So then, is the K6 based on PowerPC insruction set? Try
again. 
> pseudojo
> 
> On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Lou wrote:
> 
> > Now. I'll throw a spanner in the works.
> > What about a Cyrix 6x86MX PR233?
> > Is it better than an AMD 233 & an Intel 233MMX & an Intel PII 233?
> > Cheers.
> > Lou.
> > P.S. This is going to be an interesting NG discussion.
> >
> >
> >
> >

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From: Zimbalt <rjm@***globalserve.net>
Subject: Re: How fast is the AMD K6?
Date: 1997/11/09
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