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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Is the amd 386 40Mhz by Cyrix, if so is it crap ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.210229.12380@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1fvg8lINNj1v@nutmeg.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:02:29 GMT
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- In <1fvg8lINNj1v@nutmeg.csv.warwick.ac.uk> cstaddc@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M A Stuart) writes:
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- > Hi, a little while ago I brought a Cyrix maths copro which blew
- >my current computer up.
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- How in the world can a math processor blow your cmputer up? What did
- you do, install it with a balpeen hammer?
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- > I am a little worried therefore about purchasing an AMD 386 40Mhz
- >as I believe this is by Cyrix.
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- No connection between AMD and Cyrix that I'm aware of.
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- > I have also heard something about about software controllers of the c.p.u.
- >is this for real.
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- Huh? Presumably, you're talking about the software to enable the
- cache on the Cyrix chip. All cached chiped have to do this -- the
- difference is whether or not you have a motherboard and BIOS designed
- to do it or you have to do it manually. In a new system, I would
- expect this to be transparent to the user.
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- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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