From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 22 08:24:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10771 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:24:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from amber.eaznet.com (amber.eaznet.com [216.19.20.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10766 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:24:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eddie@eaznet.com) Received: from eaznet.com (admin.eaznet.com [216.19.20.16]) by amber.eaznet.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA15669; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:27:13 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <362F2DF0.DA8EDC7A@eaznet.com> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 06:06:56 -0700 From: Eddie Fry X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" CC: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyrix MII-300 Processor & FreeBSD References: <3.0.3.32.19981021181951.010e4eb0@207.227.119.2> <3.0.3.32.19981021203653.010d39e8@207.227.119.2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I wanted a K6, but with the price cuts coming, my suppliers won't get me one. So, I bought a Cyrix instead. I guess I can always pull it in a month and replace it with, what will probably be a cheaper, K6. When are the K7's coming out? I've read about them, but thought they were a ways off yet. Eddie Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 07:34 PM 10/21/98 -0500, Steve Kaczkowski wrote: > >I'd stick with either Intel or AMD, considering how CHEAP their chips > >are why would you want to get anything else.. > > About $70 for a MII-300 vs $110 for K6-2 300. Not much really. Unless > Cyrix were to do something radical I _never_ plan to purchase one again. > > Still it does what I need and was a good buy at the time for one of my > workstations. Hmmm... and it's _still_ in my production server. How ironic. > > But I'm slow to upgrade hardware when it meets the need. > > Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking > jeff@mountin.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Eddie Fry EAZNet Internet Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message