>My officemate and I decided to see why the Cyrix 6x86 in my machine at home
>wasn't being recognized as a Pentium or printing out the reputed "CyrixInstead"
>vendor string.  After a few hours of digging in Cyrix and Intel manuals

You didn't have to do all that digging.  If you would have asked, I
would have told you where to find that info. ;-)

See: http://www.x86.org/

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