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On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, tisol wrote: > PS this is a while ago but AMD's FPU was very similar to Intels. The AMD and Intel '486 CPU's were basically within 5% of each other at the same clock speeds and multipliers. The 5x86 is basically the same, but supports higher multipliers. The big difference in FPU speeds came about with the Pentium class stuff. In the '386 days the fastest per-clock math-co you could get was the Cyrix '387. Intel didn't really have much of a floating point edge back then. With the '486DX class stuff [ignoring abominations like the '486DLC] Cyrix had a slight edge over Intel for FPU stuff, and AMD was slightly [a few percentage points] behind Intel. Cyrix made the fastest per-clock '5x86, but AMD's can be pushed to higher clock rates. Some have been pushed as high as 160MHz. ============================================================================ ==== Help crack RC5 64-bit encryption -- http://www.distributed.net/rc5 ==== ============================================================================