On 22 May 99, at 0:55, Jun Qian wrote:

> Go for an Intel CPU. running NT by AMD or Cyrix CPU is slow.

  There was an issue with early Cyrix 6x86 CPUs with the original release of
NT 4.0, to which Microsoft's response was to disable some caching if a 6x86
was detected at installation.  Cyrix fixed the problem once Microsoft got
around to telling them about it, and I'm not aware of any other issue that NT
has with these CPUs aside from SMP multi-processor support which only works
with (multiple) Intel CPUs.
  Intel CPUs provide FPU pipelining, but there is nothing in the OS code
(or most server applications) that should benefit from this.


David G

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