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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: New Intel Chip
Keywords: 80486 Intel microprocessor
Message-ID: <14604@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 5 Mar 89 19:07:21 GMT
References: <455@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM> <18098@srcsip.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
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In <18098@srcsip.UUCP>, rogers@orion.UUCP (Brynn Rogers) wrote:
> In article <455@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM> dag@fciva.UUCP (Daniel A. Graifer):
> >Recent articles in both the Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal 
> >have hyped a new Intel chip with "record high densities".

Sounds like hype to me....

> [...] 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 ...'
> e) from the picture it is not a RISC, but definatly a CISC machine.

1 million devices, and you can tell from a newspaper picture that it
is definitely a CISC and not a RISC?  Did the silicon say "CISC" on it
somewhere?  I think it could be hard to tell a uCode store from a
large register file at a glance...

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

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.
-- 
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