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- From: karhinen@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Anssi Karhinen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: P24T
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.065623.25558@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 06:56:23 GMT
- References: <35090004@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- Edward McClanahan (edwardm@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com) wrote:
- >
- > I imagine that the P24T is to the P5 what the 386SX is to the 386DX (if it
- > ever is built). I.E. while both 386's were 32-bit chips, the SX had a 16-bit
- > external data path (but still a 32-bit address path). I imagine the P24T
- > would internally be a 64-bit chip but externally have "only" a 32-bit data
- > path. I wonder about the size of the address path (in either the P24T or P5).
-
- Does the SX really have a 32-bit address bus? I thought it was
- only 24 bits. Just 16 MB of memory like on the '286.
-
- Tsup, Anssi
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