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- From: wvp@disnet.uucp (Willem van Pelt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Should I buy the Cyrix chip ?
- Message-ID: <516@tower1.uucp>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 08:29:04 GMT
- References: <Bu2sJp.LIw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Sep9.015720.10167@philabs.philips.com>
- Organization: Disnet, IDE Maassluis, The Netherlands
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- >> But, the salesman said the Cyrix chip's math coprocessor doesn't
- >> work completely.
- >>
- > This is the first time I heard that Cyrix's chip is buggy, just wonder
- >what the salesman has in mind.
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- I have heard about software which cannot co-operate with the Cyrix, because
- the chip is too fast and the software doesn't expect the results that soon :-)
- I guess this only goes for badly written software. I have never had any
- problems myself.
-
- Anyhow, I don't expect the Cyrix (or any other co- or microprocessor) to be
- completely free of bugs. They're just too complicated. If there aren't too
- many annoying bugs then it's close enough to perfect for me.
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- Willem van Pelt | The law of gravity doesn't always work:
- IDE, Maassluis, the Netherlands | it is usually easier to pick up a girl
- wvp@disnet.uucp | than to drop her.
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