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- From: tjehl@sedona.intel.com (Timothy Jehl)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A quick '060 question...
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:51:50 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corporation.
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- Sender: tjehl@sedona (Timothy Jehl)
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- References: <C127w0.7wL@mach1.wlu.ca> <1993Jan19.082830.25788@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <C173In.Ju@comspec.com>
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- In article <C173In.Ju@comspec.com>, davec@comspec.com (Dave Carlton) writes:
- >
- > The Pentium isn't suddenly going to take the place of the 386-486's.
- > Actually, it CANNOT. It's not a drop-in situation.
- > --
-
- I suppose that depends upon what you call a Pentium. The actual device
- consists of a set of core functions, which then interface to the external
- world via a bus controller. Since the Pentium is supposed to be able to
- execute the entire i486(tm) :-) instruction set, you would think that it
- might be possible to design a slightly different bus controller which
- matches the i486(tm) :-) bus, and passes those instructions to the Pentium
- core (cache et al). Now, if there was going to be a significant market
- for such a product (aka money to be made), you would think that a relatively
- clever marketing organization might seriously consider developing such a
- chip.
- Just a thought.
-
- TJ
-