Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!vlsi!ward
From: ward@vlsi.waterloo.edu (Paul Ward)
Subject: Re: New Moto chips (was Will NeXT survive?)
Message-ID: <1991May12.222303.9121@vlsi.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <14720@encore.Encore.COM> <32580029@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com> <7765@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: Sun, 12 May 1991 22:23:03 GMT
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In article <7765@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>- 486SX - same as 486, but 16-bit external data paths and no FPU
>
>You've obviously been confused by the "SX" in "486SX".  The 486SX has
>32-bit external data paths, the "SX" nonwithstanding.
>
>>I just don't understand the market for the 486SX (as it is really
>>closer to a 386 than a 486).
>
>I assume the market is "folks who don't need the FPU but want a faster
>processor".

And demand a 486, 'cause it is the latest and greatest.  (:-)


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