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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Cyrix P166+ CPU patch - is it available? Message-ID: <E4BCLq.4BI@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <Pine.SUN.3.93-heb-2.07.970116185536.7861A-100000@actcom.co.il> <5bmd7a$ni9@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:34:37 GMT Lines: 9 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34295 In article <5bmd7a$ni9@darkstar.ucsc.edu> tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) writes: >From what I understand, Cyrix has crappy math coprocessing >Why would anyone buy one? other than its cheap I guess.. To avoid the Intel monopoly? -- Richard -- "Nothing can stop me now... except microscopic germs"