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- From: ehobbs@nmt.edu (Eric Hobbs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: 386-40 VS i486SX-25
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.143617.3520@nmt.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 14:36:17 GMT
- References: <ghartzog.0ua2@terapin.com> <1992Jul22.194413.7274@ncsu.edu> <1992Jul27.023833.4565@techbook.com>
- Organization: New Mexico Tech
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- In article <1992Jul27.023833.4565@techbook.com> marcusk@techbook.com (Marcus Kusch) writes:
- >
- >Cut in CPU power? From My understanding... a 486 is a 386 with an onboard
- >387 and cache. A 486sx is a 486 that has the 387 disabled, leaving you
- >with what is basically a 386 with a cache.
- >Now, this means he's comparing a 386 40Mhz with a 386 25Mhz with a cache.
- >I leave the decision as to which is better up to y'all...
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- >cknlps@techbook.com ........................................... Marcus Kusch
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- Doesn't the 486 have a rewritten instruction set that is much more
- efficient that the 386 set? I'm not sure about this but isn't there
- something having to do with internal clock cycles that was changed to
- make the 486 run faster. At any rate, a 486 isn't just a 386 with a
- co-proccesor and a cache.
- Heck, I don't even have a PC! I wanna get one though.
-
- Eric A. HOBBS!!
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