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- From: rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Cyrix "486" cpu really compatible ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.012544.9122@reed.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:25:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov17.012544.9122
- References: <1992Nov16.173224.3075@opus40.ix.de>
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- In article <1992Nov16.173224.3075@opus40.ix.de> hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
- writes:
- >
- > |> In article <BxLLJ0.EK2@dei.unipd.it> vento0@sabrina.dei.unipd.it (Andrea
- Susini) writes:
- > |> >I'm looking for informations about the new CYRIX cpu 486 compatible.
- > |> >I'm an Italian, and here in Italy is rather difficult to find info of
- > |> >this kind.My questions are :
- > |>
- > |> >4) Is it far better than a 386 40 mhz ?
- > |>
- >
- > No, the 486DLC-33's performance is about the same as the 386DX-40's.
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- > |Dipl.-Ing. Harald Milz | EMail: hm@ix.de |
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-
- The Cyrix chip is not a true 486. I mean this in the sense that it does
- not support all of the 486 features, not that it isn't made by Intel. An
- example of this is the fact that NeXTstep 486 will not support the Cyrix chip,
- since it uses instructions particular to the 486 (as opposed to just a 386
- instruction set, which the Cyrix chip mirrors along with most 486
- instructions).
-
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- Robert Seymour rseymour@reed.edu
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