Preliminary benchmarks run on two Cyrix 6x86 reference systems
indicate that the chip should compete well with midrange and high-end Pentiums. Cyrix said it optimized the chip to perform well running Windows applications, which tests confirm. The 6x86 offers weak FPU performance, but that won't hurt most Windows applications.
The Cyrix systems included the Quantum Fireball hard drive, 32 MB of EDO RAM, 256 KB of secondary synchronous pipelined burst cache memory, and a Stealth 3200 graphics card.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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