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From: rogers@orion.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Brynn Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: New Intel Chip
Summary: It may be the 80486!
Keywords: 80486 Intel microprocessor
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Date: 4 Mar 89 04:17:21 GMT
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In article <455@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM> dag@fciva.UUCP (Daniel A. Graifer) writes:
>Recent articles in both the Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal 
>have hyped a new Intel chip with "record high densities".  The articles
>contained essentially nothing of a technical nature.  Does anyone know
>anything more about this chip?
>Just thought I'd ask!
>		Dan

In todays marketplace section of the minneapolis star tribune  the was a
large picture of this chip.    
'... 1 million transistor microprocessor introduced monday by Intel ...'
it goes on into about a quarter page of drivel about what microprocessers
do, with statements like ' 100 transistors would fit across a human hair',
and analogys like '... streets and alleys  with traffic controled by signals at
intersections ....[insert more blah blah blah]'.

The few bits of information (information density of this article is 1%) that
it seems to state are:
a) 'The Intel chip is particularly adapted for graphics...'
b) '... expected to hit the market later this year ...'
c) '... transistors ... switch on and off roughly 50 million times a second.'
d) in the picture approx 1/6 of the chip appears to be RAM.   (on chip cache?)
e) from the picture it is not a RISC, but definatly a CISC machine.

Is this the 80486 we have all been waiting for??

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