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To: fyodor_ who wrote (20240)11/22/2000 10:49:48 PM
From: ScumbriaRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
FYO,

Rise/IDT/Cyrix chips just plain sucked.

Cyrix M1 was the performance leader for a while, and stayed very close to Intel for a year or two. I'm amazed that everyone has forgotten this so quickly.

The MediaGX was the first chip to make a significant dent in Intel's OEM stranglehold, and opened up the door for AMD.

Scumbria



To: fyodor_ who wrote (20240)11/23/2000 9:18:07 AM
From: that_crazy_dougRespond to of 275872
 
<< People keep saying things like this. I don't believe it. We all saw what happened to the original Celeron. It bombed. PR scheme or no, Rise/IDT/Cyrix chips just plain sucked. >>

One crucial difference is that there were plenty of real world applications that ran very poorly on the celeron. Even though the Athlon beats the p4 in most applications, a typical user probably can't tell the speed difference in any of them because they're both going so fast.


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