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In article: <816226129snz@c4rv.demon.co.uk>  Rajesh Varia <raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Thats for beating me to it.  I think there is some confusion here, when
> I refer to a overdrive chip, this is the chip with the extra pin.  You
> will need this chip if your board specifices it.  A dx?-??? is generic
> name for chips which run faster internally then externally, of course
> this includes the overdrive chip.

No problem.....it took me a while to work out the whole thing - why make it complicated to novices?

> Personally I blame Intel marketing for this mix-up (and where did they
> get dx4 from ?).

IBM were rumoured to be bringing out a clock-tripled processor first through her daughter company, Cyrix. Since they were 
planning to call it the DX3, Intel jumped on the bandwagon and called their's the DX4 to make it easier for people to 
distinguish between them(!). In the end, IBM did not want their processor to sound inferior, and so Cyrix named their's the 
DX4 too. How ridiculous!

Dave