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  2. Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!fj05+
  4. Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
  5. Message-ID: <QfARNru00WB6Ie02BI@andrew.cmu.edu>
  6. Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:47:35 -0500 
  7. From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
  8. Subject: Re: 486SLC chip..NextStep on Cyrix
  9. In-Reply-To: <BzD3yJ.4pF@hfglobe.intel.com>
  10. References: <1992Dec13.060559.3867@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <Bz89I7.23u@hfglobe.intel.com> <1992Dec15.192635.1133@mala.bc.ca>
  11.     <BzD3yJ.4pF@hfglobe.intel.com>
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  14. sting@hfglobe.intel.com (Joe Bennett) writes:
  15. > possibly tested much that was written for the 486 with its changes to
  16. > the supervisor mode/exception handling/etc. because *there* *was* *not*
  17. > *much* *out* *there* that a general PC user would use.
  18.  
  19. One somewhat related question:  Did they test NT on it?  Doesn't NT
  20. require a 486?  ( I could be wrong on this...)
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  22.  
  23. -- faisal jawdat                  | "Certainly the game is rigged.
  24. email: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu       | Don't let that stop you;
  25. if mail handler barfs             | if you don't bet, you can't win." 
  26. fj05@andrew.cmu.edu               |        -Lazarus Long
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