[KLUG Members] Ahh Cyrix, I remember him well...
Adam Williams
members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 28 May 2002 09:20:29 -0400 (EDT)
>Yeah, I remember when wild-eyed Glenn Henry (former Big Blue upper level
>developer) went to IDT with the idea to create the winchip (centaur). If I
>remember right, they licensed the MMX instructions out so they would be
>compatible with Intel and AMD's MMX. Cyrix made up their own MMX instructions
>(I got bit by that when I put a winmodem-junk into a commodity Cyrix M2-200
>box-junk that required MMX). They also used that MediaGX processor in a
>couple of notebooks and desktop mobos. Terrible performance with MS OSs.
Ah yes, another often overlooked reason not to use WinModems. Excessive
dependencies.
>I also remember when IBM concurrently manufactured processors for AMD, Cyrix
>and WinChip (pretty much everyone non-intel) and yet IBM always prefers the
>Intel way. Kind of like why AOL uses a hacked up Internet Explorer when they
>purchased Netscape a technological century ago.
I'd imagine AOL uses IE because 99.44% of their users are on Win32.
>On another note, I am still chuggin' away on resolving these problems I
>inherited. Adam, since you are so fond of the RS6000s, I might have to give
>you a holler on them. This is my first exposure to them.
These guys are almost identical to UNIX except for a couple of system
confiugation techniques.
>On a lighter note, things are much nicer, now that I just got a new Inspiron
>4100. (PIII 1.13, ATI Radeon, DVD/CDRW, 320MB RAM, 30gig, Accupoint (eraser
>head) and touchpad). I just dumped and reloaded it with WinXP, W2k Server and
>just downloaded Debian Potato ISOs to load. Things almost feel normal again.
Is this a laptop? If so how well does the Linux installation like it?