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A word of warning--don't expect the 586 to give a  factor of 10 improvement 
in speed over a 486.  Intel likes to quote peak numbers, and, if memory
serves, the 586 gets a lot of its performance by having multiple units
(e.g. floating-point, integer, branching, etc) on the chip that can
execute simultaneously; it can  perform more than one instruction per
clock cycle, under the right circumstances.  In practice, compilers will 
virtually *never* be able to generate code that causes *all* the units to 
execute at once.  My RS6000 can in principle execute 4 or 5 instructions
simultaneously;  in practice it seems to do 1.5-2.  I guess I'd
expect the 586 to give maybe a little more speedup than the factor
of 3 quoted for the 386-486 comparison, but not the factor of 10 you'd
guess based on a comparison of the 486 vs 586 MIPS.  Wait for some
real-world benchmarks before you get too excited.

A factor of 10 is still way to generous though...

-Carl-
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