Re: 486SLC chip..NextStep on Cyrix

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From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:47

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sting@hfglobe.intel.com (Joe Bennett) writes:
> possibly tested much that was written for the 486 with its changes to
> the supervisor mode/exception handling/etc. because *there* *was* *not*
> *much* *out* *there* that a general PC user would use.

One somewhat related question:  Did they test NT on it?  Doesn't NT
require a 486?  ( I could be wrong on this...)


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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:47:35 -0500 
From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: 486SLC chip..NextStep on Cyrix
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