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- From: uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Pentium WILL NOT go into current 486 MB's
- Message-ID: <uzun.726641424@crash.cts.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 04:50:24 GMT
- References: <93007.000543LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <1993Jan7.222014.4481@nmt.edu> <g91r5ap@lynx.unm.edu> <1in4qjINN8oc@ub.d.umn.edu>
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- In <1in4qjINN8oc@ub.d.umn.edu> rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman) writes:
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- >In article <g91r5ap@lynx.unm.edu> kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) writes:
- >
- >> 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.
- Kiernan Holland is QUITE confused. Some 486 designs incorporate a new
- ZIF socket that will work for a future 486 like chip, which has more
- pins than the current 486 does, and has some pentium features, BUT IT
- IS POSITIVELY NOT THE PENTIUM. The pentium requires a very very very
- different memory architecture and NO current 486 boards, (and very probably
- no future ones) will be upgradeable to the pentium chip.
-
- There is another chip coming out, which is faster than the 486, and
- uses pentium like architecture while keeping the 486 style mem
- interface, it is this chip, due out sometime after the pentium
- is releaseed, that some current 486 systems support
-
- -Roger
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