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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!zeos!jre
- From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
- Subject: Re: Is there an Intel 80486SX-33???
- Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 15:20:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov05.152040.4026@zeos.com>
- References: <BwzuMA.M56@clss1.bangor.ac.uk> <1992Nov4.152814.2462@inland.com>
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- Varios Stuff deleted:
- In article <1992Nov4.152814.2462@inland.com> bilimoria@inland.com writes:
- >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!
-
- >> 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.
-
- Zeos is currently offering a 486SX-33 version of our VL-Bus system. It is
- fully upgradable to DX and P24T.
-
- ---JRE---
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