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It’s very interesting to learn about Cyrix and how innovative they happened to be. Back in the 90s most of us, at least in Europe, learned about Cyrix from eith
by tirant 2y ago
It’s very interesting to learn about Cyrix and how innovative they happened to be. Back in the 90s most of us, at least in Europe, learned about Cyrix from either friends or shop clerks. And back then Cyrix had a terrible reputation, they were considered almost as illegal Intel CPU clones. AMD also had a terrible reputation until they released their Socket 7 AMD K6 CPUs and later on their Super Socket 7 K6-2, K6-3 CPU’s just before their amazing Athlon and Duron family. Cyrix never regained any reputation, and slowly their offerings ended up mixed with VIA or Centaur CPUs. Celeron and AMD CPU’s were already cheap enough so no one was buying Cyrix anymore to just save $20-$30 on a $1000 computer.
- pjmlp 2y agoYeah it was always something to get, if one couldn't afford the real Intel CPUs as means to a discount in white label PCs.
- api 2y agoI had a Cyrix Cx486DLC as a teen and it was the first thing I put Linux on… in 1993, from a stack of floppies. Fun times. The Cyrix had weird issues every now and then but Linux seemed to run fine. I remember Slackware with kernel 0.99.15.