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In article <1993Jan5.051101.15835@a.cs.okstate.edu> worley@a.cs.okstate.edu (WORLEY LAWRENCE JA) writes:
>From article <1993Jan5.011745.14524@netcom.com>, by feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel):
>> I've heard that some overdrive sockets will accept P24T (Pentium)
>> chips and that these sockets have an extra row of pins. Could someone
>> confirm this and provide further details? Thanks.
>
>In the January 1993 PC Magazine, between pages 48-49 ZEOS Int'l has one
>of those annoying, hard, glossy, 3-page, fold-out advertisements, and it
>shows a picture of a Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket with the 486dx266
>in it, and the caption says it is compatible with the new "Pentium-style"
>CPU's due in 1993.  It has an extra row and column of pin-holes.
>
>-Jason Worley

So, the question is, how miserably will the Pentium perform on a normal 486
motherboard? The Pentium is 100MHz (am I correct?), so, will it have built
in clock doubling type hardware so it can talk to a everything else that is
geared at 33/50MHz? What about the data path? Will the there be a couple
of wait states so it can slice up the data and send it in little parcels to
the Pentium?

Too bad you can't find any benchmarks yet.

-Chris