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- From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: AMD rubbish????
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 14:01:57 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services
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- In article <1992Dec13.225845.7859@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
- >What 486sx has the same performance as a 386-40? My gut feeling is that
- >a 486-sx-25 is about even with a 386-40.
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- I'm happy with the 386/40, but it's my understanding that the comparison
- to 486sx-25's is often unfair, because most of the low-end 486 systems are
- shipped with no motherboard cache, and a dinky on-chip cache, whereas
- most of the 386dx-40 systems come with 64k cache RAM on the motherboard.
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