> Quake ran just fine on P133. I know because I owned one at the time. In the absence of hardware acceleration, the Pentium 133 outperformed the Cyrix CPU by a

> Quake ran just fine on P133. I know because I owned one at the time. In the absence of hardware acceleration, the Pentium 133 outperformed the Cyrix CPU by a wide margin when running Quake. You are correct that with hardware acceleration, the CPU was far less of an issue. But all I had was a crummy ATI Mach 64, which was not even a good 2D card. So for me, the CPU was the bottle neck. Ironically, on integer workloads, the Cyrix was a lot faster than the counterparts made by Intel. But their FPU performance was rather underwhelming. On top of that, Quake had hand-rolled assembly code that took advantage of the Pentium's architecture. I never knew that people used Linux primarily to play Quake. ;-)