yhe@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Youda He) (05/01/91)
Can any body tell me what is the difference functionally between 386DX and 486SX? I know the pin out probabily different, 386 take different number of clock to exec some instructions, (who cares). Is it a easier way for AMD to catch up from386DX to 486SX? -- Youda
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (05/07/91)
In article <1991May1.153557.21982@zip.eecs.umich.edu> yhe@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Youda He) writes: | Can any body tell me what is the difference functionally between 386DX | and 486SX? I know the pin out probabily different, 386 take different | number of clock to exec some instructions, (who cares). Is it a easier ^^^^^^^^^^^ The 386 takes about 2.6 times as many clocks (depending on how and what you measure, 2-3 is the range) for typical instructions. Therefore a 486 at the same clock speed is at least twice as fast as the 386. Who cares? Me. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me