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Article #11076Re: Any new instructions in a i486?
From: peter da silva
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:42
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:42
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In article <edm.724366309@wrs.com> edm@wrs.com (Ed McClannahan) writes:
> The jist I got was that NeXTstep wants to maintain compatible File Systems
> between 680X0 and X86 platforms. To do this, they needed to do a lot of
> byte swapping on the X86 platforms. Since the 486 has a simple instruction
> to do it while the 386 does not, NeXT just went with the 486.
But going back to Cyrix, since the 486?LC implements this instruction, what's
the point?
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!ficc!peter From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) Subject: Re: Any new instructions in a i486? Message-ID: <id.25VV.LT6@ferranti.com> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <9212130000.AA05447@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> <1992Dec14.134109.3367@fasttech.com> <edm.724366309@wrs.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:42:18 GMT Lines: 13