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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!tous!bilver!wbeebe
- From: wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe)
- Subject: Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?!
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:29:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.032935.18316@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1iimlfINN7b1@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1993Jan8.142619.14531@bilver.uucp> <82960@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
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- In article <82960@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes:
-
- >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?
-
- The SL chips were harder to design with and more expensive. Also, consider
- that using an SL chip provided some product differentiation over your stock
- SX or DX laptop or notebook. Many have gone down the path designing for this
- particular variant, and don't appreciate having their engineering efforts
- wiped out in one fell swoop by Intel.
-
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