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- Subject: Cyrix486SLC and NeXTSTEP 486
- Message-ID: <BxHFv8.JwJ@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:16:06 GMT
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- I'm not an official spokeperson or anything like that, but I just picked
- up the "NeXTSTEP 486 Product Questions and Answers - Sept 30th 1992" sheet
- at a PC fair on campus. It has the following statements in it:
-
- Q: "Will NeXTSTEP 486 run on the Cyrix 486SLC?"
- A: "No. The Cyrix chip is not a true 486."
-
- That shows there is definitely a big difference between a Cyrix 486SLC
- and a Intel 486SX/DX. Otherwise, NeXT would advertise support for the
- Cyrix chip.
- The info sheet does say that NeXTSTEP 486 will support ISA/EISA 486SX,
- 486DX, 486DX2, and future members of the Intel x86 family. The IBM 486SLC
- is not addressed, but that's probably because NeXTSTEP 486 won't support
- MicroChannel. It clarifies by saying that NeXTSTEP 486 will run on any
- TRUE 486, so AMD better do a good job or they'll be left out too.
-
- Jeff Barcalow
-
- From: cs225a71@dcl-nxt48.cso.uiuc.edu (cs225 student)
-