home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utgpu!utstat!philip
- From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: clone prices & doom & gloom
- Message-ID: <C0Azn4.DvI@utstat.toronto.edu>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <1993Jan3.185526.14646@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1993Jan3.210058.7501@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:21:04 GMT
- Lines: 18
-
- In article <1993Jan3.210058.7501@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
-
- [ ]
- >
- >Careful. That could be a Cyrix 486, which only has 1K internal cache and no
- >FPU.
-
- A 25Mhz 386DX with a Cyrix math chip will outperform by far a 25Mhz 486. In
- fact, using Maple and Mathematica (in graphical and numerical problems) we've
- seen factors of 4 times faster. The math chip on the 486 is rather poor. The
- Cyrix is much better. Now, this may be neither here nor there when talking
- about the Cyrix 486()'s, but Cyrix has proved itself in other areas. I would
- not dismiss them that easily. The one good thing about the Intel market is
- the competition. This produces low prices and some very good programs (only
- some mind you).
-
- Philip McDunnough
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
-