Re: Cyrix anyone?
Barnabas Wolf (barnabas@interport.net)
Fri, 21 Jun 1996 18:50:20 -0400 (EDT)
> Ive seen the Cyrix-6x86-166 run and have ran speed tests on it. It
> was so much faster than the pentium5-133 that the pentium seemed like a
> 486dx2-66 in comparison. I have not however seen it run linux and would
> like to hear from anyone who is using it with linux. The systems i ran
> speed tests on were running windowsNT3.51. By the way, the pentium-133
> scored a 420 as opposed to the Cyrix's 902 cpu benchmark. It loaded
> autocad for windows in about half the time as the pentiums we run, and
> the applications and video seemed noticably faster, which supports the cpu
> benchmark that was so high that i suspected it as being incorrect at first.
> LN
I am running linux on the 120Mhz Cyrix-6x86 (P150+). THe Cyrix gives
me bogomips of 119.6 which about reflects the 4-5x speedup I see
compared to my old 486dx2-66. (Sorry I have no Pentiums to compare it
to.) The compilation of a kernel setup whose final zImage is ~500k
(compiled with "make dep clean zImage") takes ~11 minutes on the
otherwise mostly idle system with 32Mb ram and no swap.
barnabas