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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IBM P166+ (CYRIX) an i486_MACHINE ?
Date: 31 Oct 1996 15:46:02 -0000
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <556u48$5vi@symiserver2.symantec.com>,
tedm@agora.rdrop.com writes:
: 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.
Well, not really AMDs logic. Intel brought out the DX2 == x4 and the
DX4 == x3. I guess AMD could either call it "5" times or "8" times :(
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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