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daniel_iversen 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: What came after the 486?

Me too, and I recall the Cyrix "Pentium-like" chips were cheaper and faster than Intel's actual Pentium chips! [1]

[1] https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/49259.html

timw4mail 4 months ago | [–]

For the vast, vast majority of use cases, they are faster, yes.

Cyrix chips get too much hate because of Quake being optimized specifically for the Pentium and its FPU.

hulitu 4 months ago | [–]

Cyrix 686 166 PR200 was flying in Linux.

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