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- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!ficc!peter
- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Any new instructions in a i486?
- Message-ID: <id.25VV.LT6@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <9212130000.AA05447@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> <1992Dec14.134109.3367@fasttech.com> <edm.724366309@wrs.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:42:18 GMT
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- In article <edm.724366309@wrs.com> edm@wrs.com (Ed McClannahan) writes:
- > The jist I got was that NeXTstep wants to maintain compatible File Systems
- > between 680X0 and X86 platforms. To do this, they needed to do a lot of
- > byte swapping on the X86 platforms. Since the 486 has a simple instruction
- > to do it while the 386 does not, NeXT just went with the 486.
-
- But going back to Cyrix, since the 486?LC implements this instruction, what's
- the point?
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