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- From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller)
- Subject: Re: Pentium P5 (586) vs. i486 upgradable socket?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.005626.3208@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041
- References: <1993Jan7.165948.28260@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan7.180205.7927@samba.oit.unc.edu> <taudas.726558661@ais.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:56:26 GMT
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- taudas@ais.org (Tony Audas) wrote:
- >as i understand it, pentium is a 64bit processor and so requires a diff
- >mb design. the word is that there will be a pentiumSX (64bits internal
- >and 32bits external) that will go in a standard 486 mb/socket.
-
- Don't want to start something here that should be in some *.arch.*
- group, but the P5 is 64 bits data bus, but still 32 bits internally.
- The "overdrive" chip is supposed to be a 486 chip that is sped up
- based on the new technologies in the P5, and is 32-bits internally and
- externally. If past experiences are anything, the P5SX sill be some
- marketing ploy.
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