Messages in this thread |  | | From | Barnabas Wolf <> | Subject | Re: Cyrix anyone? | Date | Fri, 21 Jun 1996 18:50:20 -0400 (EDT) |
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> Ive seen the Cyrix-6x86-166 run and have ran speed tests on it. It > was so much faster than the pentium5-133 that the pentium seemed like a > 486dx2-66 in comparison. I have not however seen it run linux and would > like to hear from anyone who is using it with linux. The systems i ran > speed tests on were running windowsNT3.51. By the way, the pentium-133 > scored a 420 as opposed to the Cyrix's 902 cpu benchmark. It loaded > autocad for windows in about half the time as the pentiums we run, and > the applications and video seemed noticably faster, which supports the cpu > benchmark that was so high that i suspected it as being incorrect at first. > LN
I am running linux on the 120Mhz Cyrix-6x86 (P150+). THe Cyrix gives me bogomips of 119.6 which about reflects the 4-5x speedup I see compared to my old 486dx2-66. (Sorry I have no Pentiums to compare it to.) The compilation of a kernel setup whose final zImage is ~500k (compiled with "make dep clean zImage") takes ~11 minutes on the otherwise mostly idle system with 32Mb ram and no swap.
barnabas
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