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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 03:34:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.033412.18425@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1iimlfINN7b1@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1993Jan8.142619.14531@bilver.uucp> <DOCONNOR.93Jan8142700@potato.sedona.intel.com>
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- In article <DOCONNOR.93Jan8142700@potato.sedona.intel.com> doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
- >
- >wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe) writes:
- >] the P6 (which is derivative of the P5, I'm sure),
- >
- >Sorry, you're completely incorrect. Both are/will be members of
- >X86 architecture family, but P6 is no more a derivative of
- >the Pentium(R) CPU than Pentium was derivative of the Intel486(R).
-
- You know best, I'm sure. But the only things that the Intel486(R) shares
- with the Pentium is the instruction set and the fact they're both made of
- silicon. Beyond that, the similarties seem to get real fuzzy. I was trying
- to speak of design and process similarities. After all, don't your design
- methods become more advanced with each new generation? And I was reading
- somewhere that the P5 and P6 development where occuring in this parallel
- mode because of a lot of heavy borrowing from the P5.
-
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