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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: 486SX
Message-ID: <1210@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 91 16:25:06 GMT
References: <1991May2.212247.12525@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <3645@borg.cs.unc.edu> <932@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <932@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes:
>
>Ah, but notice that the 486SX is only available in speeds under 24MHz.
>They are probably "fallout", i.e. chips that don't run at rated speed,
>or have defective FPUs.  Normally they would just be "roundfiled".
>Instead, Intel sells defective (as 486DX) chips for $250.

But that is (has been?) common practice: Remember those 128 Kbit
DRAMs from TI, that were simply 256 Kbit chips with one defective
half disabled? (They were used in the first PC 10 to fill up from
512 KB to 640 KB.)

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