[comp.arch] The CPU from hell

jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen) (11/09/90)

sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
> [various speculatin about the upcoming 80x86 chips, including this line:]
>but I kinda doubt
>they'll manage it until the '686 (Hmm, if it had been the 8066, we could have
>had the chip from hell in 3-5 years...some will argue for a renumbering
>scheme). 

Some of us would argue that we've been living with the chips from hell
for about a decade... :-)

-- Jerry "the 80x86 architectures aren't bad for mid-1950's designs" Callen
   jcallen@encore.com