stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton) (04/29/91)
In article <1991Apr28.054836.24876@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> hunter@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (James Gardiner [hunter]) writes: >In <1991Apr23.201029.9844@wpi.WPI.EDU> jdutka@wpi.WPI.EDU (John Dutka) writes: > >>In article <20875@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >>>Now does it all make sense? > >>Much clearer now :) >>So how can the 80486 be explained? I can't wait (grin) > >ie I hear Intel plan to bring out a 586 686 786 etc over the next few years. >All slightly faster then the privious. Keeps you buying the expensive monsters >and also stops you from affording to experiment on other systems. Ah, this 80586 would be the 66MHz cpu that runs some three times the speed of the i486, has a full 64-bit internal and external bus, 386-compatible coprocessor, and separate 8K I&D caches? The one due out in 1992 that I keep reading about these days? It sounds a touch more than "slightly faster," and will probably be priced WAY out of the PC clone market. At least for a couple of months, anyway. Or were you talking about some other 586? Steve Wootton stevew@ecn.purdue.edu stevew@pur-ee.uucp stevew%ecn.purdue.edu@purccvm.bitnet