🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <DOCONNOR.92Jul30130104@potato.sedona.intel.com>, doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
> 
> ifaq570@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Kitchen) writes:
> ]	 Sorry bud, but to upgrade from the  486SX to the 486DX, you will
> ] need to buy an entire new motherboard.  Reason for this is that the SX is
> ] a 16 bit memory bus, just like the 386. The DX is a 32 bit part, meaning
> ] the memory is set up to be 32 bits wide. 
> 
> ARG ! NO NO NO !
> 
> Both the Intel486(tm) SX and DX have 32-bit external busses.
> The Intel486 DX has an FPU, the Intel486 SX does not. And the pinouts
> are a tiny bit different. If your 486SX board has the right stuff ( either
> a "Vacancy" socket or signal-routing jumpers ) you can upgrade
> it to an Overdrive processor ( equivalent to a clock-doubled 486DX ),
> or maybe to a DX.
> 
> In contrast, I think the Cyrix "486" part has only a 16-bit bus.
> 
> 
> --
> Dennis O'Connor			doconnor@sedona.intel.com

Maybe if the dummies who name intel products
could standardize their naming conventions
{ wait for the P5slx/2 } this type of confusion
would be less common.

Tony Bigras

ok