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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Subject: Re: Request Info Re Bus Trends & Intel 486s
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.161900.9342@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 16:19:00 GMT
- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
- References: <rjmartin.711191773@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>,<MKAHN.92Jul22091003@hopi.sedona.intel.com>
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- In article <MKAHN.92Jul22091003@hopi.sedona.intel.com>, mkahn@hopi.sedona.intel.com (Mitch Kahn) writes:
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- >The P5 will have very significant performance advantages over the 486 family.
- >I would expect a similar 486->P5 migration as we are seeing now with the
- >386->486. But it won't happen until about 1994. (My opinion)
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- Only reason why the 386 to 486 migration is occuring (IMHO) is marketing-driven
- than anything else. Profit margins on selling a '386-33 or 40 just aren't
- there, so selling '486-SuX or full-4s keeps total system price up.
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- The speed is nicer to have too, especially if you choose to inflict Windows on
- your PC... :)
-
-
- Previous signature chastized by Canadian Grad Student who flayed the United
- States as a bully from his bastion of free speech in Pittsburgh, PA.
- Yes, fact IS stranger that fiction.
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