[montroser]

I remember those Cyrix chips well. We had a little shop where we would assemble boxes to spec. And hey, a 486 is a 486, we reasoned. They were cheap, ran cool, and just about as fast as the others.

[daniel_iversen]

Me too, and I recall the Cyrix "Pentium-like" chips were cheaper and faster than Intel's actual Pentium chips! [1]

[1] https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/49259.html

[timw4mail]

For the vast, vast majority of use cases, they are faster, yes.

Cyrix chips get too much hate because of Quake being optimized specifically for the Pentium and its FPU.

[hulitu]

Cyrix 686 166 PR200 was flying in Linux.