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In article <5024@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
(T. Tim Hsu) writes:
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|About the 80686 chip by Intel....
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|A summer issue of Spectrum magazine (an IEEE publication) gave the details
|about the 686 chip, but I'll summerize a bit the publication here.  The 686
|and the 486 were similtaneous projects with the 686 staff being the more
|prominent group while the 486 staff given the higher priority.
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|Is there a catch to all of this?  Yes, just one, the 686 chip is no longer
|compatable with the older model chips, but then again, UNIX runs on anything.
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|Once more, as a query to more informed readers of the net, I thought I saw
|a 686 workstation made by MIPS, but I'm not sure, can someone verify this,
|and/or tell me of workstations that you know contain the 686 chip?  The 686
|seems be a good workstation for intensive graphics based applications.
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I got this posting again for about the third time, hopefully there's only
some problem with Usenet causing this posting to reappear rather than the
same person restating incorrect things ;-)

As has been mentioned before, T. Tim Hsu has incorrectly identified the i860
as the "686".  Do a global replace of "686" in his message with "i860" and it
makes more sense.

Intel has semi-announced the "80586" and "80686" to the extent that they will
be compatible with the 80386 and 80486.  That's all I know about the 586/686;
I'm a language person, the chip designers don't talk to me.
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