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In article <1992Sep11.212021.22690@hellgate.utah.edu>,
clark%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Charles Clark) says:
>
>Mark Gilbert offers some info about the Cx486DLC from the uP report:
>>Here is some information about the chip from the Microprocessor Report.  The
>>Cyrix 486DLC does not include any on-chip floating point hardware.  It does
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>>Cyrix will also offer 33 MHz and 40 MHz versions of the 486DLC, which may
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>According to articles in PC Week and InfoWorld, which appeared in June '92,
>Cyrix intended to sell clock-doubling versions of their 486DLC as upgrades
>for 386DX based machines.  Cyrix demonstrated a clock-doubling chip, running
>in a Compaq PC designed for the 386DX, at PC Expo.  The article notes that
>no BIOS changes were necessary for the upgrade.  They had 16/32 and 20/40
>MHz versions, and were working on a 25/50 MHz processor, according to the
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>articles.  A retail version was to be available in 4Q '92.
>

  Hmm, this sounds good.  I suppose it will be called the 486DLC2 :-)
Hmm, I get the feeling those older 386 machines will have a come back
and kick 486 butt (at least with the slower 486 machines).  I wonder
what intel has up its sleeve (besides the p5) to counter this.

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