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From: Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU>
To: Jeff Ehrenkrantz <jehrenkrantz@whyy.org>,
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Subject: Re: AMD 586
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ooops... human RAM error!   I meant Norton SI-32.
Splash!  Ahh.... I'm awake now.


> On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Jeff Ehrenkrantz wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have an stories on using the AMD nx586 good or bad?
> > tnx..je
> > 
> 
> Are you referring to the AMD 5x86?  NexGen makes the Nx586.  Yep, this can
> be confusing because....  There's the AMD 5x86, Cyrix 586, NexGen Nx586,
> and of course the Pentium.  The first two use a 486 style pinout, and 
> the remaining 2 use their own pinouts.        
> 
> The AMD 5x86-133 is a bit faster than a Pentium 75 and a Cyrix 586-100 
> according to AMD's WWW page.
> (see http://www.amd.com/html/products/pcd/5x86/20030a.html)
> 
> The Cyrix 586-120 gets close to the speed of a Pentium-90.  The NexGen
> PF110 is about the speed of a 110Mhz Pentium (if one existed) and even
> besting out a Pentium 133 according to numbers from Winstone 95 for 32bit
> code. 
> (see http://www2.shoppersnet.com/pf110stats.html for NexGen PF110 numbers) 
> (see http://www2.shoppersnet.com/p133stats.html for Pentium 133 numbers)
> 
> As for the NexGen 586 PF110, I tried it with FreeBSD 2.1R and it works
> great.  No compatibility problems and is very fast.       
> 
> 
> Info can be found at:
> AMD (www.amd.com)
> Cyrix (www.cyrix.com)
> Intel (www.intel.com)
> NexGen (www.nexgen.com and http://www2.shoppersnet.com)
> or newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardare.chips
> 
> 

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