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From: wbeebe@bilver.UUCP (bill beebe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: 486
Message-ID: <467@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 90 00:13:57 GMT
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In article <6641@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (T. Tim Hsu) writes:
>
>I haven't been in touch with the real world for a few weeks now, so
>I need to know if Intel has posponed the release of the 486 chip, or
>if Intel has canned the the release of the 486 chip.  I have heard
>rumors of both, but I figure someone reading this news group could
>better inform me.  I've written to Intel about it, but I'm still waiting
>for a respose.
>

Yes, you *have* been out of touch with rumors like that. Intel has fixed
the "obscure" floating point bug in the internal FPU and is now churning
them out as fast as they can. I think Intel would release buggy silicon
before they'd ever "can" the 80486. And I believe the silicon on the 486
is cleaner in this release than that for the 80386 when it was first
released.