Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 03:10:34 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz> Cc: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cyrix CPUs, was: Re: Repeatable crash from nautilus2 Message-ID: <3DFB11AA.9D94BD6B@softweyr.com> 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>
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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.
I saw lots of them up until February of this year, when I was no longer
making itty bitty routers. They're quite common in small embedded boxes
meant for broadband routers, etc. OpenBSD seems to run fine on them. ;^)
> 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....
Maybe so, but when you want a 1" x 4" x 6" box with 2x 100Base-TX and
no fan, they seem to work pretty well.
> Everyone I know uses either Intel or AMD processors. Intel/AMD combined
> probably have around 90~95% of the market, with Cyrix, Transmeta,
> PowerPC, SPARC and other RISC processors battling for the rest.
Perhaps in your desktop world. All Pentium-class cpus combined equals
about 1% of the 32 bit processor market by unit count. Don't take my
word for it, read the year-end roundup in the Microprocessor Report.
It's probably dropping now, but for several years the NEC Vr4300 was
outselling all Pentium chips combined about 40 to 1.
> I've seem more Apples than Cyrixs, and that says a lot...
Perhaps you haven't been looking in the right places? Check under the
hood of your cable modem...
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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