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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Newly announced Intel chip running at 100 Mhz?
Message-ID: <1990Dec30.082000.14019@kithrup.COM>
Date: 30 Dec 90 08:20:00 GMT
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In article <37384@cup.portal.com> mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater) writes:
>The technology that led to the 100 MHz ISSCC paper is likely to appear in
>commercial form as the 50 MHz 486, with 60 to 70 MHz in another year or so.
>I don't think you'll see a 100-MHz 486 in the next few years, if ever.

*sigh*  I remember learning that the Cyber 170 had a clock rate of 40MHz,
and being impressed by that.

Still, I suspect a 40MHz Cyber is going to have higher throughput than a
50Mhz '486.  No VM, though, which is a minus.

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