Cyrix 6x86

in #retrocomputing • 8 years ago (edited)


Source: http://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2017/03/16/cyrix-6x86/

This ad is a little misleading in that Winstone scores were not the best measure of CPU performance. It is true that for a brief time Cyrix processors were faster and cheaper than Intel processors for the most common tasks. This was especially true of 16-bit code which was still the most common and tasks that benefited from faster integer performance.

Read more: http://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2017/03/16/cyrix-6x86/

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