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Conference noted::ibmpc-95

Title:IBM PCs, clones, DOS, etc.
Notice:Intro in 1-11, Windows stuff in NOTED::MSWINDOWS please
Moderator:TARKIN::LINND
Created:Mon Jan 02 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3023
Total number of notes:28404

2962.0. "<AWE64 not for Cyrix- at least for now>" by SPSEG::BRAMSON () Wed Mar 26 1997 13:50

    An update to 560.360. If you own a Cyrix CPU, then you will not be able
    to use an AWE64. I got some feedback directly from Cyrix and from
    Creative Labs on this. There may be a patch from Creative in the future
    to fix this, but I would not hold my breath. The card makes use of
    specific optimized floating point instructions in the INTEL CPU which
    are not part of the Cyrix chip's architecture. So when you see
    requirements like "must have an INTEL CPU of 100Mhz or higher", they
    are NOT KIDDING.
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