Hi mirado~ ,

I thought you might not know about those two UK sites

Cyrix merged with National Semiconductor, who eventually sold them to Via.

I actually have a Gateway 2000 with a Cyrix 386 processor and the old 30-pin RAM strips

It runs Windozzzzzzzzzze 95.................. but very slowly, as I am sure you can imagine.

I guess it must be quite rare as I don't think Cyrix made very many 386 class CPUs. Actually they didn't make them, they just designed them and had them fabricated.

Yes the Athlon XP+ range doesn't use the true clockspeed. This has an "Athlon XP 1900" which actually runs at about 1.6GHz.

It marginally loses to a 1.7GHz P4 of the same era on overall benchmark............... that is because it only has PC2100 memory and onboard video. The P4 has an AGP video card and RAMBUS PC800 memory.

Back then, the Athlon XP+ would beat the equivalent P4 and the Duron would slaughter a Celeron. I guess Intel momentarily lost the plot, particularly with their cache size/configuration?

I had a bit of fun one day because I had managed to "win" a machine with twin PIIIs in it ......... my colleagues were slightly amused that I had "a PIII box", when they were all getting P4s..............until I told them that there were two PIIIs................. and they were Xeons

The RAID1 SCSI array, $1500 video card, and 21" monitor also p1$$ed them off............ well if you look after the lads designing weapons of mass destruction, you expect them to look after you? and their cast-offs were better than anyone in IT dare hope for...........Actually, it did make a lot of sense as I needed a "reference machine" to test their upgrades, and there would be little point trying that on a standard IT issue box?