Re: 486SLC chip.... what it it?

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From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:49

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sting@hfglobe.intel.com (Joe Bennett) writes:
> NeXTStep is the first, to the best of my knowledge, 32 bit
> anything for the general PC market since Cyrix and AMD started
> their clone operations.  I don't believe that Cyrix could have
> possibly tested 32 bit stuff adequately, because there was very
> little of it out there, and they were aiming for the entry level
> market as well.

OS/2 has a fairly wide user base, and has for a while.  Nothing the
size of DOS or Windows, but a reasonably following nonetheless.
There are a fairly large number of unixes out there too.


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Subject: Re: 486SLC chip.... what it it?
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