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- From: doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?!
- Date: 8 Jan 93 23:35:31
- Organization: Intel i960(tm) Architecture
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- Message-ID: <DOCONNOR.93Jan8233531@potato.sedona.intel.com>
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- In-reply-to: tdbear@dvorak.amd.com's message of Fri, 8 Jan 93 19:27:20 GMT
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- tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett) writes:
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- ] In article <DOCONNOR.93Jan7094831@potato.sedona.intel.com> doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
- ] >This is an idiotic rumor. No part in the 960 architecture will EVER
- ] >replace the x86 line. Where did you hear such lunacy ?
- ]
- ] There was talk about a year ago that the MP# pin wouldn't be static in
- ] a 960-like part which would allow a 486 to co-exist with this part
- ] which installed in the OverDrive(tm) socket.
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- Well, I don't hear everything that's said everywhere, but I do work
- in the i960(tm) processor Architecture group here at Intel, and I
- never heard anyone plan to do anything of the kind.
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- I won't, however, comment on what we do plan to do. That's not my job.
- --
- Dennis O'Connor doconnor@sedona.intel.com
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