On Saturday 16 February 2002 11:15 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 10:58:59 -0500, Bill Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > On Friday 15 February 2002 10:47 pm, James wrote:
> > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 22:21:53 -0500
> > >
> > > "Terry Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > K5-*  == i486
> > > > > > K6-*  == i586
> > > >
> > > > Not quite. K5 is a Pentium clone. K6 added MMX and K6-2 added
> > > > 3dnow!. So, K5 and K6 should both be i586...
> > > > K6-3 is the same as K6-2 with the addition of on-die L2 cache...
> > > >
> > > > Terry
> > >
> > > True and as well there are some i686 rpms on my box now... running
> > > fine. Also when I compile a kernel under 2.2 I chose i586 under 2.4
> > > I chose k-6 family.  Wasn't i686 originally the Cyrix soon followed
> > > by the Celeron?
> >
> > Cyrix  is a separate chip comany altogether. Like AMD. Though I don't
> > think they're around any longer.
>
> Cyrix was bought by VIA Technologies, along with most of the graphics
> division at S3 (which is now called SonicBlue) and Centaur Technologies
> (makers of the IDT Winchip).

Ahh! So that's what happened to them. Thank you.

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