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- From: gb03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (GEORGE PHILIP BLUHM)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Pentium WILL NOT go into current 486 MB's
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.211705.16093@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 21:17:05 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 32
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- In article <1993Jan12.022013.364@hsr.no>, vagle@hsr.no (Laban Seigemann) writes:
- >> >I don't know about this. Every computer mag that I have been reading says t
- hat
- >> >every 486 will be upgradable to Pentium. Where are you getting your info
- >> >from?
- >>
- >>
- >> 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
- >
- >Hey you guys, you've got it all wrong.
- >The PENTIUM can NOT be put into any of todays 486 main-boards.
- >
- >What you have seen is a cut down version of the Pentium, and
- >it is called P24T. It is also called for "Pentium Overdrive",
- >and it fits into an overdrive socket on the 486 main-board, if it
- >has one.
- >It has some of the features that the Pentium has, but is FAR FROM
- >a Pentium.
- >
- >A main-board with a Pentium will cost a lot more than a 486MB.
- >--
- > Lars Vagle. E-mail: vagle@hsr.no Phone: +47-4-874220
- >
-
- This discussion falls into the WGAS(Who Gives A S*IT) catagory for AMIGIANs.
-
- Phylee TYHEE MacNasty
-