^benchmarks of my own and I've found that it is about as fast as a Penitum ^-75 (using non-optimized pentium code of course). I'm running linux under Is the AMD 586 a Pentium? WOuld pentium optimized code run on it? Or is just a steriod filled 486? -- Later, ZOT zot at crl.com Home Page: http://www.crl.com/~zot/home.html Improv Page: http://www.crl.com/~zot/improv.html