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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 486SLC chip.... what it it?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.201710.7943@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 20:17:10 GMT
- References: <8f8d5m200WAL42H2tB@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Dec13.033749.1675@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1992Dec13.060559.3867@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <Bz89I7.23u@hfglobe.intel.com> <1239@bazooka.amb.org>
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- In article <Bz89I7.23u@hfglobe.intel.com> sting@hfglobe.intel.com (Joe Bennett) writes:
- >
- >As for why the 486SLC by Cyrix will not run NeXTStep, I think
- >something should be considered:
- >
- >NeXTStep is the first, to the best of my knowledge, 32 bit
- >anything for the general PC market since Cyrix and AMD started
- >their clone operations. I don't believe that Cyrix could have
- >possibly tested 32 bit stuff adequately, because there was very
- >little of it out there, and they were aiming for the entry level
- >market as well.
-
- How convenient that the best of your knowlege is completely divorced
- from reality. Of course I'm sure you weren't spreading this bilge to
- scare people off a competitor's product...
-
- 32 software has been available since xenix/386 shipped, about 1987,
- and that was the program which found many of the bugs in the genuine
- *Intel inside*(tm) processors. Actually it may be that the reason you
- need a real Intel processor is that the software is looking for the
- POPAD bug, which seems to be present in only genuine Intel processors.
-
- It is probably going to be a real shock that the "use 32 bit code"
- switch in Windows3.1 (gasp) uses 32 bit code too.
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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