From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 30 13:32:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA01518 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA01502 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (root@mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA10288; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:32:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA09648; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:31:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707302031.NAA09648@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Gary D. Margiotta" cc: Dave Alderman , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, sam@persprog.com Subject: Re: K6 In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 30 Jul 97 15:50:57 -0400. Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:31:54 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Or maybe they just suck. I sure hope not since the price cuts are still >> moving along on both Intel and AMD parts. I'm not sure if Intel would >> be so >> aggressive in its pricing without AMD nibbling at its toes :-) >Well, for what it's worth, the prices on the Cyrix chips have dropped like >a rock...I can get a 166+ for about $65 and a 200+ for about $85. Granted >no 'MMX', but they are pretty decent nontheless. And for that price, it >is hard to beat...the closest Intel 166 (no MMX either) is still around >$165. It's important to differentiate between P5 class chips and P6 class chips. The Cyrix non-MMX chips are P5 class. The K6 is P6 class. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------