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Article #916Cyrix486SLC and NeXTSTEP 486
From: News
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:16
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:16
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I'm not an official spokeperson or anything like that, but I just picked
up the "NeXTSTEP 486 Product Questions and Answers - Sept 30th 1992" sheet
at a PC fair on campus. It has the following statements in it:
Q: "Will NeXTSTEP 486 run on the Cyrix 486SLC?"
A: "No. The Cyrix chip is not a true 486."
That shows there is definitely a big difference between a Cyrix 486SLC
and a Intel 486SX/DX. Otherwise, NeXT would advertise support for the
Cyrix chip.
The info sheet does say that NeXTSTEP 486 will support ISA/EISA 486SX,
486DX, 486DX2, and future members of the Intel x86 family. The IBM 486SLC
is not addressed, but that's probably because NeXTSTEP 486 won't support
MicroChannel. It clarifies by saying that NeXTSTEP 486 will run on any
TRUE 486, so AMD better do a good job or they'll be left out too.
Jeff Barcalow
From: cs225a71@dcl-nxt48.cso.uiuc.edu (cs225 student)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news From: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Subject: Cyrix486SLC and NeXTSTEP 486 Message-ID: <BxHFv3.Jv3@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:16:01 GMT Lines: 19