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thomas@wkstas.section.upenn.edu (Thomas Fan) wrote:

>Stuart Kreitman (skk@slmedia.SPAMFREE.com) wrote:
>: Stephan Grupp
>: > 
>: > Sorry-
>: > 
>: > You can argue their relative merits all you want... but a Cyrix is NOT a
>: > Pentium.
>: > 
>
>: If you had ever written any machine code, you'd know that
>: the '86 family is a dreadfull kludge. Please learn to distinguish
>: between marketing and reality. Its the least you can do during your
>: brief stay at Penn.
>
>whoah, whoah...if you re-read his response, he said, "You can argue
>their relative merits all you want..."  Certainly not an endorsement
>or condemnation of the chips, just mentioning that they certainly
>are different manufacturers (for those may weight Intel more
>heavily).  So take it easy, no need to harass us because we're in
>school.

I've used both the Cyrix and Pentium CPU's and they both work fine.
The big Cyrix advantage is the price of course. But they do tend to
run hotter and Windows 95 thinks the Cyrix 6x866 is a 486 CPU. No big
deal unless you buy WIN95 software that requires a Pentium and won't
install if it thinks you have a 486.

Jim Cummings <jc@starlinx.com>