Cyric CPU's

[rodney at sabletech.com (Rodney Thayer)]

My experience with Cyrix is that if you call them as a software developer
they are arrogant and also oh by the way imply they are revising their chips
all the time.  Their idea of solving compatability problems is "tell the end
user to go trade in their motherboard, the next one is sure to have a newer
rev. chip, we rev. the chip all the time".

So if you have a motherboard with a Cyrix chip, learn how to pull it and put
in another CPU. 

No, I don't love Intel, in fact I am rather militant about being
anti-monopoly if I have the opportunity, so for example I would be happy to
try to use an IBM, or an AMD or one of these other x86x chips, I just don't
do vendor-with-attitude-problem.

At 11:05 AM 11/9/96 EST, you wrote:
>Do you have any recomendations/experience with systems using Cyrix CPU's?
>There's an article in the Dec 96 issue of Unix Review that reports that
>WinNT needs to disable the write back cache and use write through cache
>instead, in order to run on Cyrix CPU's without crashing.  Any information
>or pointers to information would be appreciated.  Thanks.
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