Post B5po8zM5g0hemWCos4 by vwestlife@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #B5po8zM5g0hemWCos4 by vwestlife@mastodon.social
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RE: https://indieweb.social/@lonseidman/116495787749672366Who knew? The descendant of Cyrix CPUs live on in China, and they still suck at gaming, just like the original Cyrixes of 30 years ago.RT: https://indieweb.social/users/lonseidman/statuses/116495787749672366
(DIR) Post #B5pv4Zdi2qFlXvHy3k by KanawhaCountyWX@mastodon.social
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@vwestlife @lonseidman Not a descendant in terms of technology, but in terms of corporations, an embedded system I own uses a 1.6 GHz Via Eden CPU, designed for low-power applications. It's quite slow.
(DIR) Post #B5pyOO6yulR9Rn7WDY by yeen125@mastodon.social
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@vwestlife Wasn’t Quake largely responsible for killing Cyrix?
(DIR) Post #B5rRskStSedDI89tcu by vwestlife@mastodon.social
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@KanawhaCountyWX @lonseidman Yes, the Chinese CPUs are a joint venture with VIA, whose CPUs were initially based on a Cyrix design, but then switched to a design by Centaur, based on their work developing the WinChip for IDT, another x86-compatible CPU that was briefly popular in the late '90s.
(DIR) Post #B5sZrmnoHML52gxDZA by root42@chaos.social
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@vwestlife I think the Cyrix and IBM CPUs were underrated. Yes, FPU performance was weaker than their Pentium counterparts, but they were much more affordable and integer performance was much better. I had the 6x86 and later the MX or MII variants. They were cheap enough that I could afford them as a highschool student. They were also quite quick under Linux, helping with constant kernel recompiling. :)
(DIR) Post #B62grH64njTByBnhYm by yalek0391@mastodon.social
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@vwestlife because nobody knows how to make a decent CPU anymore...lol