{"id":15894,"date":"2017-03-16T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T18:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=15894"},"modified":"2017-04-11T17:47:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T21:47:23","slug":"cyrix-6x86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/03\/16\/cyrix-6x86\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyrix 6&#215;86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158381273387\/tech-backissues-the-90s-were-a-time-of-bullshit\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tumblr_n9ldet0FFi1ti91odo1_1280.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cyrix 6&#215;86<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158381273387\/tech-backissues-the-90s-were-a-time-of-bullshit\">http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158381273387\/tech-backissues-the-90s-were-a-time-of-bullshit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This ad is a little misleading in that Winstone scores were not the best measure of CPU performance. It is true that for a brief time Cyrix processors were faster and cheaper than Intel processors for the most common tasks. This was especially true of 16-bit code which was still the most common and tasks that benefited from faster integer performance.<\/p>\n<p>However, Intel Pentium chips were still faster for 32-bit code which was becoming more common and for tasks that benefit from faster floating point performance. In addition, the pace of Intel&#8217;s development was more than Cyrix could keep up with and after a couple of years Cyrix became irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src='http:\/\/adn.ebay.com\/files\/js\/min\/jquery-1.6.2-min.js'><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src='http:\/\/adn.ebay.com\/files\/js\/min\/ebay_activeContent-min.js'><\/script><br \/>\n<script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\ndocument.write('\\x3Cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/adn.ebay.com\/cb?programId=1&campId=5337952703&toolId=10026&keyword=Cyrix&width=560&height=400&font=1&textColor=000000&linkColor=0000AA&arrowColor=8BBC01&color1=709AEE&color2=[COLORTWO]&format=ImageLink&contentType=TEXT_AND_IMAGE&enableSearch=y&usePopularSearches=n&freeShipping=n&topRatedSeller=n&itemsWithPayPal=n&descriptionSearch=n&showKwCatLink=n&excludeCatId=&excludeKeyword=&catId=&disWithin=200&ctx=n&autoscroll=n&title=Cyrix&flashEnabled=' + isFlashEnabled + '&pageTitle=' + _epn__pageTitle + '&cachebuster=' + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000000 )) + '\">\\x3C\/script>' );\n<\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyrix 6&#215;86 http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158381273387\/tech-backissues-the-90s-were-a-time-of-bullshit This ad is a little misleading in that Winstone scores were not the best measure of CPU performance. It is true that for a brief time Cyrix processors were faster and cheaper than Intel processors for the most common tasks. This was especially true of 16-bit code which was still the most common and tasks that benefited from faster integer performance. However, Intel Pentium chips were still faster for 32-bit code which was becoming more common and for tasks that benefit from faster floating point performance. In addition, the pace of Intel&#8217;s development was more than Cyrix could keep up with and after a couple of years Cyrix became irrelevant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[78,2484,2426],"class_list":["post-15894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-arcana","category-dos","tag-78","tag-cyrix","tag-pentium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}