Ka-flush! Is that the sound of Cyrix?

I read today at www.news.com that National Semiconductor is pulling out of the PC chip market. Guess who owns Cyrix, that's right boys and girls National Semiconductor.

You know what that hollow bubbling sound is? Is the sound a toilet makes after a company is down the drain.

YES! It's about time they're gone! No one ever paid attention to them any more. Their CPUs sucked. Aurora51 must be happy.

And guess what? Cyrix will be using its CPUs for the information appliance market! Read this article for more.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/990505-000014.html

Anthony "Mantis" Miceli

[Aurora51]

you damn right I am happy! its like my birthday all over again! WHOOHOOO!

[TerminX]

Hehehehe, yay, no more Cyrix!


-TerminX
At last the bullshit has left us...

[Loser]

Oh poop. Now where will we get CPUs with 50% slower than normal FPUs?

[Warrior]

Thank God!! I am so glad that I picked up my new Pentium 233 MMX yesterday.

Oh good, less competition. Now mainstream prices can go even higher! Yaaay!!!


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[fool]

I was waiting to see Mentel's reply.

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Random quote of the moment:
"A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. 'Hear that?' you say. 'That's dynamite, baby.'" -Jack Handy

hey people, arent you forgetting something? if it wasnt for companies like Cyrix and AMD we'd still be paying out our asses for Intel chips. Ok, ill admit Cyrix never was a big player and was no where near AMD, but they were still there, with every sale of one of their cpu's intel lost money, thus making them lower prices to attract even more people. i dont think anyone of us should be happy at this situation. for owners of Cyrix chips maybe they are pissed off, but overall, as stated above, they were a benefit to us, the customer.

[This message has been edited by Voyd (edited 05-10-99).]

i had a cyrix M-II 300MMX until i got my pentium3..i burned that stupid $40 socket 7 crap in a heartbeat. DONT EVER GET A CYRIX OR EVEN THINK ABOUT IT OR I WILL KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Thysis]

Oh no! Where will my school gets its underpowered and over priced computers from now?

[Misel]

Hehe, I once had one. But now that I have a K6-2 I will never cgo back to Cyrix. (except they produce a chip with a FPU better than the Athlon. .... Just kidding)

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[IgWannA]

that's old news. i've known about the liquidation of cyrix for literally 4 or 5 months

they sold it to someone for like 9 billion

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[Joe Siegler]

You check the date on the first message in this thread, IgWannA?

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[IgWannA]

LOL

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[cheeseboy]

I actually own a cyrix 366 cpu, which I'm very happy with, but God do cyrix annoy me, its hell whenever you buy an upgrade, as the chances are it won't be compatable with cyrix, so you have to wait for the patch/update in drivers. Just a good thing I'm not planning on upgrading soon.

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[Joe Siegler]

You know, in all the time I've ever been running these forums - this thread title is probably my all time favourite.