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To: Gaston Teran who wrote (30429)	8/27/1997 1:54:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	of 186894

Gaston - Re: "I read that a Cyrix 6x86 PR200+ is about 220MHz speed doing integer processing and 180MHz speed doing floating point. " Who are you kidding? A Cyrix 6x86 PR200+ would be labeled a PR220+ if it had a prayer of running at the speed of a 220 Mhz Intel CPU. The 200+ runs at 166 MHz. Most benchmarks and software comparisons show the FPU of the Cyrix 6x86 run at 35% to 50% the speed of an equivalent Intel FPU. You already know this, I'm sure. You've as much admitted it. If you want speed, you buy speed. If you want cheap, you buy cheap. If you don't need speed, you wasted your money on the Cyrix chip. You could have gotten by with a used 486 computer. Why didn't your company (DEC) agree to use Cyrix chips? Even they enough to avoid that 6x86 dog. Paul

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