From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 12 16:56:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0999D37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:56:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508CF43EC2 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:56:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from prime ([12.88.88.106]) by mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.12 201-253-122-126-112-20020820) with SMTP id <20021213005634.TPQW9286.mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net@prime> for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:56:34 +0000 Message-ID: <001b01c2a242$7c966ed0$0301a8c0@prime> From: "Charles Swiger" To: References: <20021213003952.15360.qmail@web40305.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Cyrix CPUs, was: Re: Repeatable crash from nautilus2 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:56:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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