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- From: doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Any new instructions in a i486?
- Date: 15 Dec 92 08:47:24
- Organization: Intel i960(tm) Architecture
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- Message-ID: <DOCONNOR.92Dec15084724@potato.sedona.intel.com>
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- <1992Dec14.134109.3367@fasttech.com> <edm.724366309@wrs.com>
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- In-reply-to: edm@wrs.com's message of Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:51:49 GMT
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- edm@wrs.com (Ed McClannahan) writes:
- [ WRT NeXTSteP being 486-only, and not 386 ]
- ] because it is FFAASSTT - like his car, get it? BTW: I took this
- ] "486" decision to be yet one more indicator that NeXT does not
- ] target the mass market.
-
- Intel486(tm) SX processors are priced at just a little over $100 in
- 1000-unit quantities, and Intel plans to continue dropping the price
- of it's x86 products. Which is to say : in very few years, 486-class
- machines will be the mass market, and 386-class machines will be where
- the 286-class machines are now : low-end laptops and toys for the kids.
-
- --
- Dennis O'Connor doconnor@sedona.intel.com
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