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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: AMD rubbish????
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:43:02 GMT
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- In article <92343.30350.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
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- >Note that unlike the Cyrix "486" chips, the AMD 386/40 is no slower than the
- >Intel 386s; that is, a 386/40 from AMD IS twice as fast as an Intel 386DX/20,
- >as you would expect. That is most emphatically NOT true of the Cyrix "486"
- >chips, where the Intel 486/33 is perhaps 25% faster than the Cyrix 486/33.
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- The reason is that the Cyrix part isn't a true 486. It does use the
- 486 instruction set (at least some of it) but is really a drop-in
- part for 386 motherboards.
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