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- From: syzygy@rhps.chi.il.us (Eric Swanson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Any chance we'll see a clock-doubled 386SX?
- Keywords: 386SX, Cyrix, DRU
- Message-ID: <R9qLuB1w165w@rhps.chi.il.us>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 12:44:26 CST
- References: <1992Nov18.234643.25109@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Organization: CrissySoft Incorporated
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- spcberto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund) writes:
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- > From "InfoWorld Direct," November 1992 issue, p. 29:
- >
- > "Neither Cyrix nor AMD competes in the upgradables market at the 486 level.
- > 'There are far more 386s out there; that's what people need to upgrade, not
- > 486s,' said Cyrix spokesman Mike Bruzzone. Cyrix's DRU and DRU2 chips
- > address this market, allowing 386SXs to be upgraded to 486s."
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- I don't think you'll see a clock-doubled 386sx, at least not from Intel.
- It's the whole price/performance deal. A 486sx-33 would be the machine of
- preference, for example, to be a file server (who needs floating point for a
- file server?!!), but the performance scale seems to go, 486sx-20, sx-25, dx-25,
- dx-33, dx2/50, etc. etc. Besides now that AMD and Cyrix have cloned the 386
- Intel seems to be leaving it behind.
- -Eric Swanson
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