Re:A Brief History of Cyrix
by deepsquirrelnet on Saturday November 09, 2024 @03:23PM
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My dad built our first windows 95 computer using a Cyrix chip. I can only assume it was a 6x86 from reading this article.
We had so many issues with it that we eventually replaced it with an intel-based HP. But in those days we were upgrading from 133MHz to 350MHz in the span of about a year and a half (ca. 1997).
By the time I built my first computer in college, the Athlon XP was breaching 1GHz, triple the clock speed in another 3 years time.
Fast times with “slow” computers. But it was sure fun to feel these major leaps in computing practically every year.
We had so many issues with it that we eventually replaced it with an intel-based HP. But in those days we were upgrading from 133MHz to 350MHz in the span of about a year and a half (ca. 1997).
By the time I built my first computer in college, the Athlon XP was breaching 1GHz, triple the clock speed in another 3 years time.
Fast times with “slow” computers. But it was sure fun to feel these major leaps in computing practically every year.