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Article #2270Re: Intel Processors
From: Don AINGWORTH
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 20:04
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 20:04
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In article <4005@rtifs1.UUCP> bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) writes: >> to do with the million + chips: that when an intel had in i before its number, that meant that it had a million transistors, or whatever it is >It's certainly not transistors - the 386 only has about 275k transistors, and the earlier 80x86 chips obviously have fewer. I suspect that it is short for iAPX, a term they use on more than just the 80x86 line (like the i860), and seems to designate a processor architecture. ----------- No, actually we were talking about the i486, which does indeed have >1,000,000 transistors in it. Intel even made a big deal of that particular fact. You seem to be looking at the wrong chip. Read mor carefully next time. dork don t-dona@microsoft dondaing@phoenix.princeton.princeton.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uunet!microsoft!t-dona From: t-dona@microsoft.UUCP (Don AINGWORTH) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Intel Processors Summary: #of transistors in the i486 Keywords: i486 Message-ID: <56340@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 6 Aug 90 20:04:16 GMT References: <1990Jul30.143353.25913@usenet@kadsma> <56214@microsoft.UUCP> <4005@rtifs1.UUCP> Reply-To: t-dona@microsoft.UUCP (Don AINGWORTH) Distribution: na Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 21