Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:56:35 -0500 From: "Charles Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> To: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Cyrix CPUs, was: Re: Repeatable crash from nautilus2 Message-ID: <001b01c2a242$7c966ed0$0301a8c0@prime> References: <20021213003952.15360.qmail@web40305.mail.yahoo.com>
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Rhett Monteg Hollander wrote: [ ... ] > By the way, have never understood such a despise to > Cyrix CPUs. They were the best integer performers of > late 1990s, and quite reasonably priced. I believe the Cyrix CPUs had a slightly different exception frame layout compared with a genuine Intel CPU, and tended to cause some non-Microsoft OS'es to panic whenever the system lad got high or a multithreaded app was run. (IIRC...) -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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