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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: New 386 chip coming
Summary: New AMD chips
Keywords: AMD, 386, INTEL
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.191402.17623@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 25 Jan 91 19:14:02 GMT
References: <91025.093344TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET>
Sender: storm@cs.mcgill.ca
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In response to the post by TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET (Turgut Kafaoglu):


The new AMD chip is SUPPOSED to consume less power than the 80386, and AMD
claims compatibility.

However, the latter is a topic of debate.  The AMD chip might not be 100% 
compatible with the Intel chips, and while AMD claims that they have tried
pretty well all software with it, we won't know until it is released.

The litigation over whether AMD was allowed to produce the chip ended with
a Judge slagging on Intel for crummy business practices.

The current litigation is over whether AMD can use the the "386" in the name
for the chip.

Quite honestly, considering that the AMD chip won't be much cheaper, I'd 
rather stick with the safety of an INTEL chip.


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