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- From: msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Dragon Lord)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Should I buy the Cyrix chip ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.032439.1389@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 03:24:39 GMT
- Article-I.D.: serval.1992Sep11.032439.1389
- References: <Bu2sJp.LIw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Sep9.201510.27348@dcatlas.dot.gov>
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- In article <1992Sep9.201510.27348@dcatlas.dot.gov> joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:
- >
- >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.
- >
- The question was wether or not to buy a Cyrix 387 coprocessor. Nothing
- to do with the 486 is/is not debate.
-