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From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: 80686 workstation
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Date: 9 Nov 89 03:00:21 GMT
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In-reply-to: ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu's message of 8 Nov 89 16:06:13 GMT


> 
> Does anyone know about any companies that have produced (or are producing) a
> 80686 workstation?  Does anyone know how much faster the 80686 is compared to
> an 80486?  From what I've read on the chip, it would seem to be a minimum
> of 4 times faster due to it being a 128 bit floating point chip and its one
> instruction per clock cycle setup.


umm... this is a joke, right?  the 80686 isnt going to be out for
what, 6-8 years.  maybe the article just got cought in a time warp.


-wayne