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From: carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: 80486
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Date: 29 Nov 88 16:33:00 GMT
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I went to a talk by Intel about it, and they were cagey about actual dates.
From what they said, the '486 does not really have any new features. Mostly,
it's faster (a significant number of long instructions execute in fewer
cycles), and there will be no '487 - it's built in now. (I.e., the FPU
is onboard, which makes it a lot faster).

Alan M. Carroll          "How many danger signs did you ignore?
carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu     How many times had you heard it all before?" - AP&EW
CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana    ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!s.cs.uiuc.edu!carroll