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- From: aaron@spectrx.saigon.com (Aaron Anderer - System)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: The Cyrix Issue...
- Message-ID: <wPw8wB3w165w@spectrx.saigon.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 06:57:07 PST
- References: <1993Jan10.233443.7189@gw.wmich.edu>
- Organization: SPECTROX SYSTEMS (408)252-1005 Silicon Valley, Ca
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- x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
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- > In article <1993Jan11.023720.22106@wam.umd.edu>, rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamana
- > articles that the Cyrix 486 chip is exactly what was said above:
- > a 386sx with a 2K onchip cache and a few extra instructions that
- > are math related. It is NOT a 486 class processor (in terms of
- > compatibility).
-
- I own a 486DLC-33 with a Cyrix 3D87 chip. All the software I run believes
- that it is a 486, I have run 486 specific test programs and they run fine
- (and they don't run on 386/387 combos). It has a 1k cache, not 2k like you
- said, but it is quite fast(mine runs 107mhz on landmark 2.0).
-
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