On Sunday 23 June 2002 17:49 pm, Stormjumper wrote: > yes, it works. > i'm running on a Cyrix, same type, but slower. > threw in 256mb ram, and it's actually pretty snappy to use. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "poogle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 11:57 PM > Subject: [newbie] CyrixInstead > > > I've finally persuaded my partner to go the Linux way and installed > > 8.2 on her > > > companies standalone PC. > > When it came to remove CD and reboot, it did but took forever. > > I've had a quick look and find that it is not a Celeron processor as I > > had > > > been told (guess I should have checked myself before I started) it is > > described by Harddrake as this > > CyrixInstead > > MII 3.5X Core/Bus Clock > > Frequency 262MHz > > MMX yes > > BogoMIPS 522.64 > > > > anyone know if this should work with 8.2 or do I need to go back to > > 7.0 ? > >Thanks for the feedback, it only has 160mb BTW. I suppose it just seemed slow because at the moment it's sitting alongside my PC (Duron 1200 with 256mb). You gave me an idea, I timed it against a laptop with a Celeron 366 and 160mb - from boot to login the cyrix is about 20 secs slower which seems reasonable.
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