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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
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  3. From: mneideng@thidwick.acs.calpoly.edu (Mark Neidengard)
  4. Subject: Re: "586" rumours?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul29.161432.188094@zeus.calpoly.edu>
  6. Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu
  7. Organization: Academic Computing Services, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
  8. References: <1992Jul29.100549.1@qucdntri.ee.queensu.ca>
  9. Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:14:32 GMT
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  11.  
  12. In article <1992Jul29.100549.1@qucdntri.ee.queensu.ca> morton@qucdntri.ee.queensu.ca writes:
  13. >Anybody heard any more rumours on the "586" coming out soon? What I've heard,
  14. >is that Intel has gone to a completely new architecture, and micro-instruction
  15. >set, while putting a 386 chip on board for backwards compatability. 
  16. >
  17. >This makes a lot of sense to me. Anybody want to confirm/deny this rumour, 
  18. >or provide any more?
  19.  
  20. Yes, there IS a 586 coming out.....it's more commonly known by it's Intel
  21. name, the P5.  It's supposedly gonna be a superscalar chip, with around 100
  22. MIPS of performance, and backwards compatibility.  This fact has been the
  23. topic of discussion all across the industry for MANY months.
  24.  
  25. Mark Neidengard
  26. mneideng@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu
  27. "The other 'P'?  Well, that's not that simple..."
  28.         Naughty by Nature
  29.