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Athlon XP 1800+ under Linux
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| Fri Oct 12, 2001 | 10:18A| PermaLink |
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A few years ago, Cyrix, now part of VIA, released a line of CPUs called the 6x86. Cyrix claimed that these CPUs were equivalent to Intel CPUs of a higher clock, and labeled them as such with "performance ratings," PR ratings for short. Cyrix was criticized for this, because the CPUs didn't really outperform higher clocked Intel CPUs. We have been without PR ratings from the major CPU makers for the last few years, but now again we find them in use, with the new Athlon XP line of CPUs.
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FULL STORY @
NEWSFORGE
(http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/09/0758210&mode=thread)
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