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Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?!

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From: Mark Wilson
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 18:50
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In <1993Jan8.142619.14531@bilver.uucp> wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe) writes:

>Never say never. Intel announced it was phasing out the i486SL, and moving
>that technology to all it's i486 family. That minor product reordering
>ticked off a number of major customer's (NEC, Compaq, etc) who were
>designing notebooks around the SL.

I don't understand why they would be so ticked, if the technology is moving
into the rest of the family, that would give the companies even more options
to choose from and still be able to maintain the low power requirements that
they need.
Did the 486SL have different pin-outs or something from the rest of the
486 family?
-- 
Mob rule doesn't become any prettier, just because the mob start to call itself
a government.
It ain't charity if you are using someone else's money.
Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
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From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
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Subject: Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?!
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Date: 8 Jan 93 18:50:20 GMT
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