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From: prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 80x86 numbering (was: 80486)
Message-ID: <443@maxim.ERBE.SE>
Date: 19 Dec 88 18:57:52 GMT
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In article <13258@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:

> From what I have heard (I don't know how reliable it is), the 80486 will
> come out in two versions:  a native one and an 80486/32632 (!) hybrid...
> after which the iAPX86 line will be discontinued, folded into the iAPX32
> line.

This will be confusing, since National Semiconductor uses the 32x32
numbering scheme now. I think their latest CPU is the 32532..
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