Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekgen!tekigm2!neals From: neals@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Neal Sedell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 80388 (was: Re: Intel 386SX chip & its applications) Message-ID: <3118@tekigm2.TEK.COM> Date: 27 Jun 88 17:29:15 GMT References: <206900116@prism> <3617@tekgvs.TEK.COM> <5729@gssc.UUCP> Reply-To: neals@tekigm2.UUCP (Neal Sedell) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Vancouver, WA, USA Lines: 18 In article <5729@gssc.UUCP> bradd@gssc.UUCP (Brad Davis) writes: > > ... deleted ... > > Try this: Find someone familiar with the guts of PCs, but who hasn't >heard of the announcement yet. Ask him what a "386SX" is, and you will >probably get a blank stare. Then ask what an "80388" would be, and he will >describe what Intel announced. probably true, but if you realllllly think about it, the present 80386 SHOULD be a 80382, and the 80386SX should be a 80386, using the last digit of the data bus width. Right???????? What can I say. It's Monday morning (again!) Waiting for the 80584, ;-) -- Neal