Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:13:27 -0500 (EST) From: Jonathan Disher <jdisher@parad.net> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyrix CPUs, was: Re: Repeatable crash from nautilus2 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212122011300.17833-100000@pasiphae> In-Reply-To: <001b01c2a242$7c966ed0$0301a8c0@prime>
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Charles Swiger wrote: > Rhett Monteg Hollander wrote: > [ ... ] > > By the way, have never understood such a despise to > > Cyrix CPUs. They were the best integer performers of > > late 1990s, and quite reasonably priced. > > I believe the Cyrix CPUs had a slightly different exception frame layout > compared with a genuine Intel CPU, and tended to cause some non-Microsoft OS'es > to panic whenever the system lad got high or a multithreaded app was run. > (IIRC...) It wasn't limited to non-Microsoft OS's. WindowsNT refused to successfully install on Cyrix CPUs (and I think Windows98 didn't work well either)... It was specifically excluded from the NT HCL. And I've seen firsthand that they dislike each other. -j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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