[ale] motherboard recommendations?

Todd B SanMillan bain at crl.com
Thu Jul 11 15:52:37 EDT 1996


On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Tucker Balch wrote:
> 	What's the deal with the Cyrix vs Intel CPU speeds? e.g.
> 	the ads imply that the Cyrix 100 == Intel 120. Why didn't
> 	Cyrix number theirs the same?

Cause the number is Megahertz and refers to something (i think speed of 
execution of instructions).  But Cyrix has changed the architechture so 
that it gets the same amount of work done at a slower speed.

Todd SanMillan






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