From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 13 0:14:11 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 0EE1C37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:14:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (meitner.wh.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.129.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CAB143EDE for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:14:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org ([10.3.12.105]) by meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (8.10.2/8.10.2/SuSE Linux 8.10.0-0.3) with ESMTP id gBD7Tnc14252; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:29:49 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de: Host [10.3.12.105] claimed to be lofi.dyndns.org Received: from gmx.net (kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBD8Dn5X028367 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:13:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Message-ID: <3DF996BC.7070009@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:13:48 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Pole Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cyrix CPUs, was: Re: Repeatable crash from nautilus2 References: <20021213021012.61714.qmail@web40303.mail.yahoo.com> <004901c2a25c$0c381c50$0301a8c0@prime> <1039756076.12023.5.camel@localhost> <3DF974C6.3070901@gmx.net> <1039764208.12365.12.camel@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.63.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) 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 James Pole wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 18:48, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > >>James Pole wrote: >> >>>I think the fact Cyrix isn't very popular these days >> >>Ain't the VIA C3-CPUs everyone wants likes so much CYRIX-Technology, too? > > They have less than one percent of the market. I have, personally, never > seen a Cyrix/VIA-powered computer over the past few years. Looking at > benchmark scores, Cyrix is always near the bottom. Even a Celeron at > could probably beat a C3 processor at twice the clock speed.... Well, they are new and they compete on power-consumption/perfomance ratio... but this is getting off-topic & stuff, I'll shut up now ;) -- Regards, Michael Nottebrock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message