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- From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Subject: Re: Pentium P5 (586) vs. i486 upgradable socket?
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:02:05 GMT
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- Get away from that machine! Don't you know its full of Pentium?!
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- (Apologies to whomever's .sig I stole this from)
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- The answer to your questions seems to be both yes and no...
- I am told, that there will be an P5 upgrade for the 486 "overdrive" slot.
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- The bad news is that since the P5 has a greater number of pins, the upgrade
- chip will be partially disabled and thus, not be as fast as a real
- honest-to-goodness (drum roll please) pentium.
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- "just wait til someone calls it 'Intel's version of the 586'"
- jem.
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