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Article #11653Re: What's in the '586?
From: william E Davidsen
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 17:55
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 17:55
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In article <a3Li023807T001@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, rbw00@ccc.amdahl.com ( 213 Richard Wilmot) writes: |> May we hope that the 586 will be SELF-VIRTUALIZABLE so that I can run |> multiple different operating systems concurrently. The best info I've heard (on 386users mailing list of course) is that there will be two CPUs and one FPU, and the FPU will be shared when needed. The story going around is that someone at Intel asked what the best support for wandows would be: X or MS, and the answer was "a second CPU to run the damn window manager." It is not impossible that Intel took this to heart. I'm also told that the SCO MPX extension to run multiple CPUs on UNIX will run with this chip because it follows some set of rules for how additional CPUs should appear. I also hear that the cache is up to 32k.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!yeti!davidsen From: davidsen@yeti.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: What's in the '586? Message-ID: <1991May17.135551@yeti.crd.GE.COM> Date: 17 May 91 17:55:51 GMT References: <1991May14.002130.4740@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <a3Li023807T001@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com Distribution: comp Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 20