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From: mcnally@wsl.dec.com (Mike McNally)
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Subject: Re: What's in the '586?
Message-ID: <1991May20.095217@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 20 May 91 16:52:17 GMT
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In article <1991May19.072710.865@kessner.denver.co.us>, david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner) writes:
|> Hey!  Could be worse-- Intel could put OS/2 functions in 'microcode'!
|> I wonder if they will offer a 586sz, a 586 sans OS/2 and 8086 emulation. :):):)

Does anybody remember the 8086 support chips with iRMX or CP/M in them?  I do.


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* "In the Spirit as my automatics,  *                              Mike McNally
* Lystra and Zelda were one third   *                                    Coolie
* as large as the infinite Cosmos." *                  DEC Western Software Lab
*              --- D. S. Ashwander  *                       mcnally@wsl.dec.com