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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!tandon!tdbear
- From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Should I buy the Cyrix chip ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.000614.1984@tandon.com>
- Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
- References: <Bu2sJp.LIw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Sep9.201510.27348@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 00:06:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.201510.27348@dcatlas.dot.gov> joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:
- >
- >I'm not even sure it _has_ a coprocessor
-
- The post you were responding to was about the 387 Cyrix
- Coprocessor chip... not the 386 compatible.
-
- >(I think) as a knockoff of the 486SX. Reviews have consistently flamed
- >this chip for not being a true 486
-
- This was the biggest marketing mistake since the quite vacuum
- cleaner! They should have marketed it as a higher performance
- 386 rather than the 486. I think marketeers got sorta glassy
- eyed when they figured folks would buy according to the
- landmark numbers... NOT.
-
- Now, for a "super" 386, the Cyrix isn't really that bad of a
- deal.
-
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