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- Subject: Re: Any new instructions in a i486?
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- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 05:32:09 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9212210032.13@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <PCG.92Dec19162224@decb.aber.ac.uk> <9212200017.12@rmkhome.UUCP> <WAYNE.92Dec20171036@backbone.uucp>
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- In article <WAYNE.92Dec20171036@backbone.uucp> wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) writes:
- >In article <9212200017.12@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >
- >< >(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.
- >
- >
- >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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-
- Except they will fix any Pentium problems quickly.
-
- Someone needs to drag out the logic analyzers.
-
- Does GCC, which NeXT uses, have a "-i486" flag that causes some wierd
- code optimization, or is this just my imagination?
-
- NeXTStep for Intel seems to be the only dedicated 486 package around.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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