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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
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Subject: "Intel takes wraps of 386"
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 16:19:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 16:19:49 1985
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Electronics Week, April 15, 1985, pages 18-19 has an article with
the above title.  A few quotes:  "Intel won't ship samples for at
least six months", "the 386 incorporates about 300,000 transistors,
compared with the 286's 140,000.  As for central-process performance,
Intel wil not cite a figure in mips, saying only that it is two to
three times faster than the 286, depending on the application".
The article goes more into the politics of announcements, and the
competition between the 386, the 68000 and the 32032 than it does
into the technical details of the 386 (which were not all divulged
in the series of technical briefings which inspired the article.)
--henry schaffer