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- From: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Babylon 5
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 12:16:51 -0600
- Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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- In article <g91r5ap@lynx.unm.edu> kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) writes:
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- > Another thing, did you hear that The Intel Pentinum will be released
- > in this quarter? Ya, and it has 3 million transistors (3 times more
- > than the 68040) and runs at 100 Mhz. Any PC with a ZIF socket for the
- > CPU will be able to be expanded to the Pentinum. Times like these
- > when I wish Amiga had been based on a Intel chip.
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- The last I heard was that the 586 (pentium) was incompatable (being 64
- bit) and that one would have to run an IBM emulator on it to run older
- software. Of course, I could be very wrong, but like everything you
- hear - take it with a grain of salt (sometimes a pound or two) until it
- has been confirmed by several reliable sources.
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- Thanks
- Robert Fentiman
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- UseNet: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu
- At: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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