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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Intialization of comp.sys.intel
Message-ID: <1295@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sat, 15-Nov-86 14:40:24 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 15 14:40:24 1986
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In article <400@intsc.UUCP>, tomk@intsc.UUCP (Tom Kohrs) writes:
> My interest in this group will be to pursue discussions on the advanced 
> (no flames yet please) architectures that Intel is selling (ie. 286,386,
> 586, and 786)...
>         ...the 486 and beyond...

Sounds good to me.  Tom, can you start with a summary of the architecture
of each of these chips?  The only 586 I know of is the 82586 which is an
"advanced" but very buggy Ethernet chip.  Haven't heard of the 786 at all.
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa
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