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Article #935Re: Cyrix486SLC and NeXTSTEP 486
From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:54
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:54
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news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) writes: > 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. aside from the already known different memory paths and lack of coproccessor (but gee, these are such minor differences :-) ) that's it, but this was obvious from the initial cyrix specs someone posted a while back with the differences (instruction/data wise) between a 486 and a 386/387 and showed how it would be easy enough for someone to write an os that would only work with a 486 be exploting 486 features and when you consider that the cyrix chip is essentially a very fast 386sx, the differences between it and a full 486 are obvious what i want to know is whether NS486 will require a 487 if you have a 486sx
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.tek.com!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!fj05+ From: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Cyrix486SLC and NeXTSTEP 486 Message-ID: <sf03qqa00WB5RIg8gv@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 10 Nov 92 12:54:46 GMT Article-I.D.: andrew.sf03qqa00WB5RIg8gv References: <BxHFvo.K0B@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: <BxHFvo.K0B@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>