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Article #71750Re: Overdrive Processors
From: David Firth
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 00:00
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David Stokes (david@dstokes.demon.co.uk) wrote: : 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! Maybe they were in binary mode | bit 2 | bit 1 | bit 0 | | (4) | (2) | (1) | +-------+-------+-------+ | DX4 | DX2 | DX1 | DX4 is thus clock tripled, a clock quadrupled chip would therefore be a DX8 ;-) -- David Firth <david@signus.demon.co.uk>
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