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- From: bilimoria@inland.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Is there an Intel 80486SX-33???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov4.152814.2462@inland.com>
- Date: 4 Nov 92 15:28:14 CST
- References: <BwzuMA.M56@clss1.bangor.ac.uk>
- Organization: Inland Steel Company; East Chicago, IN
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- In article <BwzuMA.M56@clss1.bangor.ac.uk>, mather@sees.bangor.ac.uk (Paul Mather) writes:
- > Could somebody PLEASE set me straight. I could swear I'd heard on this
- > newsgroup and read in a few computer rags that Intel had launched a
- > 33MHz version of the 80486SX. I've even seen some places advertising
- > 486SX-33 motherboards.
- >
- > Anyway, when phoning about pricing motherboards, most places strenuously
- > denied the existance of an Intel 80486SX-33 chip! (Some were almost
- > evangelical, to the point of rudeness, in their denouncement!) And to
- > add to the mass confusion, some places were using 486DLC-33 (i.e. the
- > Cyrix chip) and 486SX-33 interchangeably!
- >
- > All of this tended to undermine my belief in the actual existance of an
- > Intel 80486SX-33 chip. :-( Could someone, therefore, please restore my
- > sanity by confirming either way exactly what gives. (Even better if
- > someone could say "Yes, they do exist, I HAVE ONE!!":)
- >
- > And speaking of the Cyrix 486DLC-33, I heard LOTS of contradictory
- > reports about this when phoning dealers pricing motherboards. Half of
- > them that sold 486DLC-based motherboards were saying "They're great!
- > Best thing since sliced bread! There's no problems whatsoever!" and the
- > other half were decrying "They're terrible! We've had nothing but
- > problems and returns!" What gives?
- >
- > Inhabiting a land of confusion...
- >
- > Cheers,
- >
- > Paul.
- >
- > --
- > e-mail: p.mather@sees.bangor.ac.uk
- >
- > If your mailer can't reach me, I'm obviously not worth talking to.
-
-
-
- Yes, Virginia there IS an Intel 486SX/33. But it's so new that most mail
- order salespeople haven't heard about it. In fact there is no machine today
- that uses it. ALR (Advanced Logic Research) is scheduled to come out with
- a couple of machines based on this new chip by mid-Nov. It will a 32-bit
- ISA architecture capable of being upgraded to full DX.
-