Windows Server 2016 Licensing Info
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Did anyone ever have a Cyrix processor, I had a MII back in the day?
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@brianlittlejohn said:
Did anyone ever have a Cyrix processor, I had a MII back in the day?
Ha ha, I had a few. Man those procs were garbage. They used to make drop in replacements for the Pentium II.
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@scottalanmiller Yes they were, but they were cheap... comparatively
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Cyrix was from Richardson, TX - only minutes from my house.
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Cyrix was merged into National Semi long ago and then nearly all of it sold off to Via. That's where the remains of it are now.
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@brianlittlejohn They were good enough to run DOS and Turbo Pascal - at least that's what one of my college teachers claimed.
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Cyrix wasn't actually all that bad. They weren't good, but they were better than Intel's own chips. So much so that Intel sued to block them from using names like P200 because Intel couldn't beat them by just making a better processor. The Cyrix were more efficient and lower cost than the genuine Intel.
I've always wondered why people bragged about "Genuine Intel" when it meant "slow and expensive."
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@scottalanmiller said:
Cyrix was merged into National Semi long ago and then nearly all of it sold off to Via. That's where the remains of it are now.
Didn't Nation Semiconductors get purchased by TI?
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@marcinozga said:
@brianlittlejohn They were good enough to run DOS and Turbo Pascal - at least that's what one of my college teachers claimed.
If the assumption was that Intel was good enough then yeah... anything was good enough.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Cyrix was merged into National Semi long ago and then nearly all of it sold off to Via. That's where the remains of it are now.
Didn't Nation Semiconductors get purchased by TI?
yes, but not the Cyrix division.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Cyrix was merged into National Semi long ago and then nearly all of it sold off to Via. That's where the remains of it are now.
Didn't Nation Semiconductors get purchased by TI?
yes, but not the Cyrix division.
Yep... that is the extent of my processor history...
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@scottalanmiller said:
Cyrix was merged into National Semi long ago and then nearly all of it sold off to Via. That's where the remains of it are now.
VIA is the worst one. I think some Netbooks used them. I had a 300mhz Cryrix back in the day it was okay for the price.
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I used to have a VIA Samuel, once upon a time. Names like Samuel and Eden did nothing to help them. Their C3 and C7 were not horrible, but they never had much reason for existing.
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VIA did make good secondary chipsets for a while there. No idea what they are doing these days.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Yeah, the industry has put a lot of effort into all kinds of both software and hardware research based around a pricing model that has now changed.
The real lesson here is, as it has been many times in the past, that Windows is the wrong place to be making investments when you can help it.
I've been making money on tipping holes in MSFT product / licensing / marketing strategy since maybe 1998 but... You can make SOME money but it's very difficult to build a healthy growing company this way
So SAM you're 200% right on this..........
