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- From: norsk@mobius (Doug Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Pentium P5 (586) vs. i486 upgradable socket?
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- Organization: Novell, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan7.165948.28260@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:52:59 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.165948.28260@athena.mit.edu>, Alex Nemirovsky
- <AN72958%LTUVAX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu> writes:
- > just a quick questions.. rumor has it that the P5 is going to be a
- > 100 MIPS machine... and most highend 486's are about 20 MIPS.
- I just bet its marketing hype again
- before the 486 chips hit the street intel was saying 15 mips for 33
- mhz and 26 for 50 mhz. Probably will be in the 50-60 mhz range
- in a real machine
- >
- > does anyone know if the upgrade socket on i486's allows you
- > to stick in a P5 or something of that nature?
-
- sorry no
-
- > I have heard (again hearsay) that is there is a chip in the
- > upgrade slot the orginal Cpu is bypassed.
- >
- > if anyone knows... please straighten me out.
- >
- > just to know if I can upgrade if a decide to go with a 486 and not wait
- > for the P5 whick might not be supported by Linux anytime soon.
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