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From: jones@acsu.buffalo.edu (terry a jones)
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Subject: Re: AMD386-DX
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Date: 2 Apr 91 04:16:47 GMT
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In article <1991Apr2.022516.26153@news.iastate.edu> tabu6@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes:
>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 25Mhz
>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).


	I have to agree, hats off to AMD!  I think Intel needs the competition
to keep them on their toes.  Prices on these parts are out of hand to say the
least.  The only problem I see with the elevated clock rate 386 is the fact
that some of us need the FPU.  I don't see any 40Mhz 80387 parts as yet, and
I'd expect costs there to also be out of sight.  This would tend to leave the
486 as an attractive solution once you considered the cost of the CPU/FPU
combination.  Wouldn't it be nice if AMD got together with Cyrix and layed
out a 386&387 on a die?  Throw in some cache, and you have an interesting
concept going.....


	Terry


Terry Jones   				{rutgers,uunet}!acsu.buffalo.edu!jones
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