Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 06:06:56 -0700 From: Eddie Fry <eddie@eaznet.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyrix MII-300 Processor & FreeBSD Message-ID: <362F2DF0.DA8EDC7A@eaznet.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19981021181951.010e4eb0@207.227.119.2> <3.0.3.32.19981021203653.010d39e8@207.227.119.2>
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I wanted a K6, but with the price cuts coming, my suppliers won't get me one. So, I bought a Cyrix instead. I guess I can always pull it in a month and replace it with, what will probably be a cheaper, K6. When are the K7's coming out? I've read about them, but thought they were a ways off yet. Eddie Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 07:34 PM 10/21/98 -0500, Steve Kaczkowski wrote: > >I'd stick with either Intel or AMD, considering how CHEAP their chips > >are why would you want to get anything else.. > > About $70 for a MII-300 vs $110 for K6-2 300. Not much really. Unless > Cyrix were to do something radical I _never_ plan to purchase one again. > > Still it does what I need and was a good buy at the time for one of my > workstations. Hmmm... and it's _still_ in my production server. How ironic. > > But I'm slow to upgrade hardware when it meets the need. > > Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking > jeff@mountin.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Eddie Fry EAZNet Internet Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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