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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:10:22 CST
- From: Jason Kratz <U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <93010.231022U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Pentium WILL NOT go into current 486 MB's
- References: <93007.000543LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <1993Jan7.222014.4481@nmt.edu>
- <g91r5ap@lynx.unm.edu> <1in4qjINN8oc@ub.d.umn.edu>
- <uzun.726641424@crash.cts.com>
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- In article <uzun.726641424@crash.cts.com>, uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun) says:
- >
- >In <1in4qjINN8oc@ub.d.umn.edu> rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman) writes:
- >
- >>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
-
- Kiernan Holland is also quite unsatisfied with everything. The last time I
- read a post of his he said that he was ditching his Amiga for a PC clone.
- Guess not. Can't wait for the next goodie Kiernan? Wait till next year for
- the 68060. Vastly superior design (2 million transistors vs. Pentium's 3 mil).
- If you're really desparate go and buy a SGI workstation - like an Indigo.
-
- >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.
- >
- I don't know about this. Every computer mag that I have been reading says that
- every 486 will be upgradable to Pentium. Where are you getting your info
- from?
-
- >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
-
- Once again where did you hear about this? I haven't read a thing about some
- other chip. Everything I have read talks about the Pentium and how it will be
- able to upgrade current 486's.
-
- >
- >-Roger
- >--------------------------------------------------------------
- >bix: ruzun
- >NET: uzun@crash.cts.com
-
- Jason - U28037@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU
-