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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!news From: Ric Flinn <rmf@iastate.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Cyrix P166+ for FreeBSD Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:56:16 -0600 Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 13 Message-ID: <32791270.167EB0E7@iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: friley10.res.iastate.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-961004-SNAP i386) I am considering upgrading from a P100 to a Cyrix P166+ processor. Can anyone share views on performance compared to a P133 (which is still more expensive)? Or are there any incompatibilities I should know about, etc? I understand that the Cyrix FPU is not as powerful as the intel's, how does this effect compiling-time performance? Thanks, Ric -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= | Ric Flinn rmf@iastate.edu | | http://friley10.res.iastate.edu/~rmf | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+