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From: whitney@reed.cs.unlv.edu (Lee Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 486SX - Intel now telling lies
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Date: 15 May 91 21:03:39 GMT
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If you have been following the threads on the 486sx you have probably
heard alot of negative response to Intel's market ploys.  Even though I'm
sure some of the response has gotten back to Intel, they obviously are
not concerned with their credibility if they are making statements
like this one printed Computer Reseller News, May 6 1991:


According to David House, president of Intel's Microcomputer
Components Group in Santa Clara,

 ....  In addition, the 20Mhz 486sx chip delivers a 40 percent greater
performance than the 33Mhz 386 processor.  The rate of change from
386-based systems to 486sx-based systems is expected to occur rapidly.


Sure it will occur rapidly with statements like that!  Maybe I'm
jumping the gun in accusing Intel, but is there any objective evidence
to substantiate this claim?  Does anyone else have an idea as to the
performance difference between the 486sx-20 and the 386-33?