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wwitt@adara.intel.com (Wolf Witt) writes:


>To straighten out some of the confusion over the i486 family...

>i486DX	- 32-bit data bus, 32-bit address bus, built in FPU, built in 8k cache.

>i486SX	- Like an i486DX without the FPU. In other words, it still has the
>	  32-bit busses and the 8k cache.

>i487SX	- A flavor of the i486DX which can be plugged into the performance
>	  upgrade socket of an i486SX machine to add floating point computation
>	  hardware. Yes, this part essentially is an i486DX which shuts off the
>	  original i486SX when it is plugged into a system.

>i486DX2	- An i486DX with a clock doubling circuit, meaning that the chip
>	  internally runs at twice the system board's frequency. This part is
>	  currently only being sold to OEMs.

>Overdrive Processor
>	- This part is in effect the i487SX2 somebody was wishing for in a
>	  previous post. It is like an i486DX2 with the pin-out of an i487SX.

>I hope this helps. I know our naming strategy is confusing, but unfortunately
>nobody asked my opinion.

>Wolf


>Legal Stuff:
>i486DX, i486SX, i487SX, i486DX2 and Overdrive Processor are
>trademarks of Intel Copr.

>=> Wolf Witt, Design Engineer     <=> You say there is a bug in this chip?   <=
>=> x86 Focus Group, Intel Corp.   <=> No, no, you don't understand...        <=
>=> wwitt@smdvx1.intel.com         <=> This is a feature!                     <=
>=> I speak for myself, but nobody ever listens to what I have to say anyway. <=

EXACTLY the information I was looking for.  Thank you very much.
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