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Re: 486 vs. 386

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From: Gregory Donald Moncreaff
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:14
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article <1992Nov9.200839.27999@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se writes:
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>Not to mention that very few people actually need a 586 (aka Pentium).
>How many people--excepting ray-tracing fanatics and people who do
>serious number crunching--have had any speed problems with a 33 MHz
>486?  
>
does any one remember when they asked us, "who really needs a 486?"
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From: moncrg@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff)
Subject: Re: 486 vs. 386
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