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- From: kiki@csa.bu.edu (Keith Baccki)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Pentium WILL NOT go into current 486 MB's
- Message-ID: <106731@bu.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 18:52:09 GMT
- References: <1in4qjINN8oc@ub.d.umn.edu> <uzun.726641424@crash.cts.com> <93010.231022U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- In article <93010.231022U28037@uicvm.uic.edu> U28037@uicvm.uic.edu (Jason Kratz) writes:
- >In article <uzun.726641424@crash.cts.com>, uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun) says:
- >>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?
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- So what? When you take a 100 Mhz 64-bit chip (or whatever the hell
- it is) and throw it on an 8 Mhz 32-bit motherboard with 16-bit slots,
- you do the math... If you want the machine, you have to go for the
- architecture.
-
- keith
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