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- From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Advanced Micro Devices
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.144100.29599@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:41:00 GMT
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- In article <BxqD07.9uu@ns1.nodak.edu> wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken) writes:
- >
- >The AMD is in fact the fastest 386 CPU you can buy, but only because it
- >runs at 40MHz, and Intel's fastest runs at 33. At equal speeds they run
- >exactly the same (since AMD uses Intel's microcode in the IC). Their
- >AM386DX/DXL clone has been out for about 2 years now, with problems reported.
-
- I ran a 40Mhz 386 mother board for well over a year without even so
- much as a HINT of a problem with the chip. I have generally found the
- thing to be quite reliable....
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-
- Toodlepip!
- Marc 'em.
-
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- Marc Wandschneider Montreal, CANADA fire "
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