Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpsgwp!plim From: plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: 486sx Message-ID: <3360023@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> Date: 2 May 91 03:02:19 GMT References: <12506@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr Lines: 29 / nataraj@celebrity.Eng.Sun.COM (Nataraj) / 9:46 am Apr 30, 1991 / writes: > How long does it take for the smalltime-cloners to come out with > a machine after the big companies like IBM,Compaq,AST > come out with a machine based on a new Intel Chip? > According to a local newspaper ads. ACER claimed that they are the first one (in the world ? or in Singapore) to come out with a 486sx based machine. It was published a few days ago. > I am specifically interested in the 486sx story. > One rumour quarter claims that the 486sx's are actually 486 with defective math unit which is disabled. Any truth in this ??? Regards, ___o``\________________________________________________ ___ __ _ _ Peter Lim. V````\ @ @ . .. ... .- -> 76 MIPS at under US$20K !! --- -- - - /.------------------------------------------------ === == = = >--_// . .. ... .- -> 57 MIPS at under US$12K !! `' . If you guessed SUN, IBM or DEC, you are wrong ! E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, Singapore 0410. #include