Subject: RE: cyrix
To: 'port-i386@NetBSD.ORG' <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Adam Glass <adamg@microsoft.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/14/1996 17:55:42
You're p5-120 price is way too high.  P-120 here from the local shop is
$239 as well.  p5-133 is $339.  (price list from monday).  $449 sounds
like a p5-150.

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>From: 	Jim Rees[SMTP:rees@umich.edu]
>Sent: 	Tuesday, May 14, 1996 1:22 PM
>To: 	port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
>Subject: 	cyrix
>
>So the Cyrix chip is faster than the Intel chip at the same clock, and
>it's
>way cheaper.  I can get a Cyrix 5x86-120 motherboard (with cpu) for
>$239,
>and the P5-120 is $449, almost twice as much.  Since I've got all the
>other
>parts in my junk box, that's a big difference.
>
>But can anyone confirm that NetBSD runs on the Cyrix chip?  Or even
>heard
>rumors that it works, or that FreeBSD or Linux works?
>