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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The CPU with 3 brains
Message-ID: <2841@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 6 Nov 90 13:42:13 GMT
References: <42737@mips.mips.COM> <1990Nov4.014901.23819@zoo.toronto.edu> <PCG.90Nov5195229@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <PCG.90Nov5195229@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:

| Except for oddities like the 860 and 960, isn't the 486 still designed
| to be almost binary compatible with the 8008? Sigh!

  As far as I know the 80486 and 8008 are completely compatible at the
level of the first two digits of the part number. The instruction set is
100% diferent, so the only binary compatibility is that they both will
read ones and zeros.
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bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
      The Twin Peaks Halloween costume: stark naked in a body bag