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From: t-dona@microsoft.UUCP (Don AINGWORTH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Intel Processors
Summary: #of transistors in the i486
Keywords: i486
Message-ID: <56340@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 90 20:04:16 GMT
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Reply-To: t-dona@microsoft.UUCP (Don AINGWORTH)
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In article <4005@rtifs1.UUCP> bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) writes:
>> to do with the million + chips: that when an intel had in i before its
 number, that meant that it had a million transistors, or whatever it is

>It's certainly not transistors - the 386 only has about 275k
transistors, and the earlier 80x86 chips obviously have fewer.
I suspect that it is short for iAPX, a term they use on more
than just the 80x86 line (like the i860), and seems to designate
a processor architecture.

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No, actually we were talking about the i486, which does indeed have
>1,000,000 transistors in it.  Intel even made a big deal of that 
particular fact.  You seem to be looking at the wrong chip.  Read
mor carefully next time.  dork

don

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