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From: ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler)
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Subject: Re: CYRIX 387
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Date: 9 May 91 02:51:54 GMT
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>>In article <1991May3.211842.2137@nntp-server.caltech.edu> anne@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Anneliese Lilje) writes:
>>>Has anyone used a CYRIX 25 MHz math coprocessor with an Intel 
>>>386? Are they a happy pair?

I e-mailed a response but I'll post too ... I use the 33 MHz variety with a 33
MHz 386 clone and have had absolutely no problems - and I do lots of floating
point intensive number crunching. I like Cyrix's evaluation programs ...

"This program took 25 sec to execute; if you had been running an Intel 387, it
would have taken 43 sec."

Then we tried it with an Intel.

"This program took 43 sec to execute; you are obviously running an Intel 387.
If you had been running a Cyrix 387, it would have taken only 25 sec."

Not quite verbatim, but you get the idea ...
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  Mike Ressler - Infrared Photon Jockey     ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu

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