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From: jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: The CPU from hell
Summary: They're here!
Message-ID: <13190@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 9 Nov 90 04:43:37 GMT
References: <35325@cup.portal.com> <1990Oct30.210852.15087@mozart.amd.com> <8527@scolex.sco.COM> <1990Nov7.184237.22840@mozart.amd.com> <11019@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <0093F67F.7998C140@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> <2861@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <0093F6A8.35049DA0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>
Reply-To: jcallen@encore.Com (Jerry Callen)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
> [various speculatin about the upcoming 80x86 chips, including this line:]
>but I kinda doubt
>they'll manage it until the '686 (Hmm, if it had been the 8066, we could have
>had the chip from hell in 3-5 years...some will argue for a renumbering
>scheme). 

Some of us would argue that we've been living with the chips from hell
for about a decade... :-)

-- Jerry "the 80x86 architectures aren't bad for mid-1950's designs" Callen
   jcallen@encore.com