[plug] need to upgrade? -was Re: [plug] kmail and the gigasecond bug

[Brad Campbell]

Bret Busby wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 09 Sep 2001, Steve Vertigan wrote:
> > Bret Busby wrote:
> >
> > > This Cyrix 6x86 is reated as being equivalent to about a pentium 75/90. It is a
> > > fair bit less than a P200.
> >
> > Are you sure it's a 6x86?  CPUs aren't my strong point but my BSD box is
> > a cyrix 5x86 which is supposed to be about equivalent to a pentium 100.
> > It's seems strange a 6x86 would be less powerful.
> 
> The 586 was supposed to be the equivalent of a 486; the 6x86 was supposed to be
> the equivalent of a pentium. However, I have subsequently found that, while the
> 6x86 is supposed to be the equivalent of a pentium in processing power, it uses
> only the 486 instruction set.
>
It does? Well then, I'd better tell my 686-PR166 that is happily running pentium
code that is is WRONG..
The 686 uses the Pentium instruction set, but has a 486 grade FPU, which is why the 
FPU performance is crap..


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