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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: 486SLC chip..NextStep on Cyrix
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.192352.1041@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec13.060559.3867@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <Bz89I7.23u@hfglobe.intel.com> <1992Dec15.192635.1133@mala.bc.ca> <BzD3yJ.4pF@hfglobe.intel.com> <QfARNru00WB6Ie02BI@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:23:52 GMT
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- In <QfARNru00WB6Ie02BI@andrew.cmu.edu> Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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- >sting@hfglobe.intel.com (Joe Bennett) writes:
- >> possibly tested much that was written for the 486 with its changes to
- >> the supervisor mode/exception handling/etc. because *there* *was* *not*
- >> *much* *out* *there* that a general PC user would use.
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- >One somewhat related question: Did they test NT on it? Doesn't NT
- >require a 486? ( I could be wrong on this...)
-
- You are. Hardware target for NT is a fast 386 or 486.
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