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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: what is different between 386DX and 486SX?!!
Message-ID: <3858@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 91 01:07:08 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.155803.8093@tandem.com> <13471.281da4bf@ecs.umass.edu> <1991May1.131401.10245@cbnewsh.att.com> <1991May1.153557.21982@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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In article <1991May1.153557.21982@zip.eecs.umich.edu> yhe@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Youda He) writes:
| Can any body tell me what is the difference functionally between 386DX
| and 486SX? I know the pin out probabily different, 386 take different
| number of clock to exec some instructions, (who cares). Is it a easier
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^

  The 386 takes about 2.6 times as many clocks (depending on how and
what you measure, 2-3 is the range) for typical instructions. Therefore
a 486 at the same clock speed is at least twice as fast as the 386.

  Who cares? Me.
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