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From: mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Erratum 21
Message-ID: <10540@cup.portal.com>
Date: 27 Oct 88 02:54:02 GMT
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>The 80386 family has taken on the DX suffix to indicate that the part
>has a 32 bit external bus (80386DX), it just so happens that the
>part is also a 'D' step part. The 80386SX is the same 80386 core with
>and external 16 bit data bus and 24 bit address bus.

I was told by the PR folks at Intel that any part marked DX was a D-step
part.  Are they confused?  Are there any DX parts that are not D-step?
Or are you saying that the DX notation was added when the D-step was
released, but that it is just coincidence that the letter "D" is used?

Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report   mslater@cup.portal.com
415/494-2677