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From: mss2696@tamsun.tamu.edu (Mark Saum)
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Subject: Re: 486SX
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Date: 10 May 91 21:48:49 GMT
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In article <1024391017@f90.n310.z2.fidonet.org> Alexander_Holy%f90.n310.z2@hippo.dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Alexander Holy) writes:
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> >  > 486SX == 486 w/o "built in" coprocessor
> >
> > 486SX == 386 ?
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>No, no. The 486 is a complex 64-bit RISC CPU (very similar to the i860) which 
>is microcoded to do 386 instructions. The hardware is totally different.

The 486 is a CISC processor. (short for Complex Instruction Set)


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Mark Saum                                                Remote Sensing/GIS Lab
Asst. Sys. Admin/Programmer                             Dept. of Forest Science
msaum@rsgis.tamu.edu                                       Texas A&M University

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Mark Saum                                                Remote Sensing/GIS Lab
Asst. Sys. Admin/Programmer                             Dept. of Forest Science
msaum@rsgis.tamu.edu                                       Texas A&M University