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From: Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com>
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Subject: RE: i686 quirk for AMD Geode
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:55:12 -0800
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> Which would be mroe indication that the Geode LX may in fact be a K6
> based CPU design. The Geode NX is very clearly an Athlon (K7) and AMD
> has never even tried to hide that. They have never said what the LX is
> based on, other than it isn't based on the GX (fortunately, that thing
> was a buggy piece of crap).
Well, do you know the history of the Geode line? It originated in the Cyrix MediaGX, then that was sold to NSC and renamed to Geode, then that was sold to AMD later.

Yuhong Bao
 		 	   		  
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