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From: cheese@bucc2.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: New Intel Chip
Message-ID: <32100058@bucc2>
Date: 6 Mar 89 18:20:00 GMT
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Nf-From: bucc2.UUCP!cheese    Mar  6 12:20:00 1989



>Nope.  It's probably the i860 (aka N-10) you've read about in
>Infoworld and such recently.  The "graphics" part is what gives it
>away.  The 486 is supposed to be just a fast 386 (ie, no new
>architecture), whereas the WSJ and others indicate that the i860
>started life as a graphics coprocessor before becoming a CPU.

This is true...Intel realized that the N-10 could be an even bigger
money-maker than the 386 chip, which sells for $250, by charging 3
times that amount for this wonder wafer.  Apparently, IBM, currently
one of the biggest vendors of over-priced plastic-encased product, is
quite gung-ho about it and in planning on using it in yet another
over-priced plastic-encased product.  


cheese (bucc2.uucp)