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Article #1438Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?!
From: Bill Beebe
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:29
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:29
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In article <82960@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes:
>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?
The SL chips were harder to design with and more expensive. Also, consider
that using an SL chip provided some product differentiation over your stock
SX or DX laptop or notebook. Many have gone down the path designing for this
particular variant, and don't appreciate having their engineering efforts
wiped out in one fell swoop by Intel.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!tous!bilver!wbeebe From: wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe) Subject: Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?! Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:29:35 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan10.032935.18316@bilver.uucp> References: <1iimlfINN7b1@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1993Jan8.142619.14531@bilver.uucp> <82960@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> Lines: 20