Cyrix

Stephen Partington cryptworks at gmail.com
Fri Jan 5 13:14:23 MST 2018


Cyrix  had some very innovative tech in them putting them on part with AMD
and Intel for certain things. but they went under in 1997, and their assets
went to AMD and VIA

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 12:55 PM, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I seem to recall in the early 90's Cyrix chips were less expensive that
> Intel and AMD.
>
> I also seem to recall there was a bug in their math logic.  I do not
> recall hearing of Cyrix after that.
>
> Anyone recall what happened?  I did some research and found the coma bug
> -- however I do not think that was it.
>
> Thinking about what Intel is going through made me think of Cyrix.
>
> I would not doubt Intel goes out of business and comes back as something
> else.
>
>
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Stephen
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