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In article <1993Jan9.143517.6052@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> wai@mackinac.ecn.purdue.edu (Benjamin Wai) writes:
>	During my visit in HK this x'mas, I have come across two incidences 
>	of shops attempting to sell off Cyrix486dlc/slc based computers with
>	the heading -- 486DX/SX.

Even in the US or EC some companies have tried to use "486/25" to hide
the Cyrix fame... I know that at least one of these companies got
warnings from various country officals that they would not be allowed
to sell such machines using that terminology (or lack thereof).

>	the 486dlc/slc chips are the same to 486DX/SX but just different blend.
>	Deception or simply ignorance?
>
Most dealers (in or out of HK for that manner) are worse than the
stereotypical used car salesmen... they usually don't even know what
they are talking about (or so the joke goes).

>	Is this 486slc2 to 486slc the same as comparing
>	DX2 with DX? Or have I misread something?

This *is* confusing and I can't figure out why in the world IBM would
have gone ahead with their plans to use such similar chip names.
Anyway... the IBM chip is most likely their own 486 (they have full
rights to the 486 and the 486 microcode for their own use and to sell
to anyone on PC Boards... OEMs or end-users).  The "slc" part means
that it is low power.  I doubt if it is a Cyrix.


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