From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 19:23:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA08427 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:23:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from aeffle.Stanford.EDU (aeffle.Stanford.EDU [171.65.76.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA08418 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from hlew@localhost) by aeffle.Stanford.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA16372; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:23:15 -0800 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:23:12 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew To: Brian Litzinger cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nexgen 110PF, Cyrix 6x86 questions? In-Reply-To: <199603190902.BAA01878@MediaCity.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Brian Litzinger wrote: > Do processors such as the NexGen PF110 and Cyrix 6x86 actually > execute Pentium specific instructions or are they all hyper fast > 386s? > > Is anyone using any of these processors? > > -- > Brian Litzinger Powered by FreeBSD > http[s]://www.mpress.com > I think they are all x86 core compatible. The RISC86 core in the NexGen is pretty good. I think the Cyrix 6x86 use something similar... If I was a software developer (with precompiled programs), I would probably want my code to run on as many machines as possible. Thus, I would avoid fancy tweaked code specific to any one processor or even one motherboard. Targetting a software product for the whole market would be more financially beneficial than going for a small selected number of users. Well, of course if you're a Unix person that's a bit different because you can always recompile the software with all the fancy tweaks -- provided you have the source code handy. /--------------------------------------\ / Howard Lew \ < Email: hlew@genome.stanford.edu > \ http://www.shoppersnet.com / \--------------------------------------/