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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!server1.nw.ixe.net!server1.adam.ixe.net!wirehub!sun4nl!dataweb.net!Leiden.NL.net!dwerguil.usoft.nl!news From: Willem Wals <walsw@usoft.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IBM P166+ (CYRIX) an i486_MACHINE ? Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:47:33 +0100 Organization: USoft The Business Rules Automation Company Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3278D825.71D1@usoft.nl> References: <32634E20.2CD7@usoft.nl> <54s8gj$481@amd40.wecs.org> <556u48$5vi@Symiserver2.symantec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nlpdfw01.usoft.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1 (WinNT; I) tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote: > [SNIP] > The 5x586 is a 486 chip multiplied by 5 times. 33x5=133 according to AMD's > logic I guess. ;-) This is explained on AMD's website. No that counting error was made for DX4 that does 3x33MHZ=100MHZ and so they thought lets be consistent (think back of xt-times with the 1M memory limit) DX5=4x33.33333MHz makes 133MHz Oh whats in a name anyway ;-) Willem Wals walsw@usoft.nl