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- From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?!
- Message-ID: <82960@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 18:50:20 GMT
- References: <DOCONNOR.93Jan7094831@potato.sedona.intel.com> <1iimlfINN7b1@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1993Jan8.142619.14531@bilver.uucp>
- Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA
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- In <1993Jan8.142619.14531@bilver.uucp> wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe) writes:
-
- >Never say never. Intel announced it was phasing out the i486SL, and moving
- >that technology to all it's i486 family. That minor product reordering
- >ticked off a number of major customer's (NEC, Compaq, etc) who were
- >designing notebooks around the SL.
-
- I don't understand why they would be so ticked, if the technology is moving
- into the rest of the family, that would give the companies even more options
- to choose from and still be able to maintain the low power requirements that
- they need.
- Did the 486SL have different pin-outs or something from the rest of the
- 486 family?
- --
- Mob rule doesn't become any prettier, just because the mob start to call itself
- a government.
- It ain't charity if you are using someone else's money.
- Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
-