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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Should I buy the Cyrix chip ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.201510.27348@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <Bu2sJp.LIw@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:15:10 GMT
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- Personally, I would *never* buy anything with the Cyrix chip. This is the
- chip that is labeled a 486 but is really nothing but a 386 with a 1K cache
- added to it. I'm not even sure it _has_ a coprocessor, being intended
- (I think) as a knockoff of the 486SX. Reviews have consistently flamed
- this chip for not being a true 486 (PC Mag, PC Week, Infoworld(?)). So, in
- your list of planned purchases, don't _queue_ it, _screw_ it.
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- -JTT
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