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- From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
- Subject: Re: Any new instructions in a i486?
- Message-ID: <Bzn2Gt.EJr@pix.com>
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- Organization: Pix Technologies -- The company with no adult supervision
- References: <PCG.92Dec19162224@decb.aber.ac.uk> <BzMEIJ.Anz@pix.com> <id.RO0W.F1F@ferranti.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:19:41 GMT
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- In article <id.RO0W.F1F@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >In article <BzMEIJ.Anz@pix.com> stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne) writes:
- [...someone says the cy486DLC + cy487 is about as fast is an i486DX...]
- >> I don't think this is the case (but I would love to be wrong...). I beleve
- >> the #clocks each insn takes is more like the 386, then the i486.
- >
- >If NeXTstep does busyloops using instruction timing, I don't want it no
- >matter WHAT it looks like.
-
- I had removed all the stuff about NeXTstep from the message. I was just
- disputing the speed claim. However it turns out that I am wrong. Which is
- nice (in this case).
-
- I really doubt thare any hard timing loops, more likely to be a MMU diffrence.
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