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From: shane@inferno.peri.com (Shane Bouslough)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 486SX - Intel now telling lies
Message-ID: <1991May31.155520.7525@inferno.peri.com>
Date: 31 May 91 15:55:20 GMT
References: <1991May24.152912.1601@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
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From article <1991May24.152912.1601@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, by amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen):
>
>    I have just received email indicating a claim that the new intel 486-sx
> will not be pin compatible with existing 486's.  The source wasn't intel,
> so I don't know...  If anybody has published or 'good' information regarding
> final production, customer available 486-sx's NOT being pin compatible.
> Please post the info and references.
> 

I think the latest issue of Byte (with the AMD386-40 & Intel 486 on the cover)
or the May 20th edition of PC Week talk about it. One of those references
says the pinouts are different which is why AMD may still have a competitive
edge over Intel since manufacturers can use their existing board designs.

> Al. Michielsen, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University
>  InterNet: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu  amichiel@sunrise.acs.syr.edu
>  Bitnet: AMICHIEL@SUNRISE 

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