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From: tabu6@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Adam Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: AMD386-DX
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Date: 2 Apr 91 02:25:16 GMT
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I read in a magazone (I don't remember which) that AMD was going to formally
announce the AMD386-DX 40MHz on March 31 (Yesterday, but that was Sunday...so
maybe they were going to today).  Apparently AMD & Intel reached an
out-of-court settlement on the 386 trademark question.

Hoooray.  According to the article, the 40 Mhz version of the 386 would cost
almost exactly the same as Intel's 33 Mhz version of it.  Accorrding to the
article, several hardware (clone) vendors have announced (or will announce)
clones equipped with the 40 Mhz version of the 386.  

It seems to me that a 40 Mhz version of a 386 would be preferable to the 25 Mhz
version of the 486...and as a result, Intel (according to the article) is
rushing their development on the faster 486s and the 586 (due out this year).


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