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- From: wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Any new instructions in a i486?
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:10:36 GMT
- Organization: The Backbone Cabal
- Lines: 25
- Sender: wayne@backbone (Wayne Schlitt)
- Message-ID: <WAYNE.92Dec20171036@backbone.uucp>
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- In-Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP's message of Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05: 17:09 GMT
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- In article <9212200017.12@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
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- < >(somebody)> NeXTStep is said to not run on the Cyrix 486 chips because
- < >(somebody)> "they are not real 486's". No one has come up with a
- < >(somebody)> reliable reason _why_ NeXT doesn't think they are "real
- < >(somebody)> 486's" or why NeXTStep won't run on them.
- < >
- < >FUD, FUD. Ah Intel, Intel. :-)
- <
- <
- < I don't see where this has anything to do with Intel. Cyrix decided that
- < they could make some money by cloning a best selling CPU chip. Obviously,
- < they have missed something.
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- Well, from the info that has been posted so far, it looks more and
- more like it is NeXT that screwed something up and doesn't care about
- fixing it. Chances are NeXTStep won't run on the Pentium either if it
- is that fragile.
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- -wayne
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