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Article #260Re: DX vs DX2
From: Thomas Wong
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 23:15
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 23:15
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In article <1992Apr15.191222.25016@intelhf.hf.intel.com> jmaster@pcocd2.intel.com writes: >There is a 50 Mhz 486 chip. 50 MHz inside and out. > >There is the DX2 series that will INTERNALLY (to the chip) double the frequency >from 25 or 33 MHz to 50 or 66 MHz (respectively). External timings however are >25 or 33 Mhz. Just pull the old chip out, put this one in. Now there is a >new setup using a doubler chip, and I don't know much of anythign about this >setup. It does NOT use the Weitek socket (If I understand this correctly). >The board manufacturers will have to put a second socket on board. > Didn't I read somewhere that Intel is coming out with a chip that can sit in the Weitek socket? So that it can offload work from the main cpu? And doubles the speed of the system? This is meant as an upgrade offer for the existing 486s out there. Didn't anyone else read something like this? Thanks. Thomas.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!twong From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) Subject: Re: DX vs DX2 Message-ID: <1992Apr15.231515.9690@unixg.ubc.ca> Sender: news@unixg.ubc.ca (Usenet News Maintenance) Nntp-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada References: <1992Apr14.193534.3467@adobe.com> <1992Apr15.170929.5484@unixg.ubc.ca> <1992Apr15.191222.25016@intelhf.hf.intel.com> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 23:15:15 GMT Lines: 19