viggo@freja.diku.dk (Allan Kim Schougaard) (12/29/88)
allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >From what I have heard (I don't know how reliable it is), the 80486 will >come out in two versions: a native one and an 80486/32632 (!) hybrid... >after which the iAPX86 line will be discontinued, folded into the iAPX32 >line. So the question becomes, what follows the 32932? According to NCR (in Denmark) the 80486 will be a hybrid but in a funny way: Some of it will be RISC (one instruction - one clockcyckle) so that the most normal instructions will be very fast. Some new ones will also be in the RISC department. But other parts of the '486 will be straight forward extensions to the architecture and instructions will take as long as 40 clockcyckles in this department. This info was brought to by: Viggo at DIKU Viggo@freja.dk