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From: ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Whis is fastest 386/33 or 486/25 ?
Message-ID: <1990Jul16.054325.2190@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
Date: 16 Jul 90 05:43:25 GMT
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Organization: Prentice Computer Centre
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a516@mindlink.UUCP (Jordan Melville) writes:
>In article <217@news.nd.edu>, laughner@news.nd.edu (Tom laughner) wrote:
>> There would be no difference in speed between a 386 with a math
>> coprocessor and a 486.  The 486 chip is a 386 + the math coprocessor in
>> one.  Intel considers the 486 as a part of the 386 family.

>Although this may be true, you forget that the 486 has 8k of cache right on the
>processor, plus the chip IS more efficient that a 386+387 chip. The times
>should be close, but measurably different.

Doesn't the i486 use a pipeline mechanism for instruction loading ?

ant

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