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From: ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 80486
Message-ID: <753@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 88 13:57:10 GMT
References: <15374@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1300@inuxd.UUCP> <3472@ttidca.TTI.COM> <23671@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <23671@amdcad.AMD.COM>, phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
| I would like to point out that the 80586 is already out. It is Intel's
| Ethernet interface chip. Sun used it on some of their Sun-3s and in a
| talk at Usenix mentioned that the 586 driver was exceptionally large
| because of the many chip bugs they had to work around. Sun uses AMD
| 7990 LANCE chips in their later model workstations (Sun-3/50 and
| 3/60).  Researchers at LBL have found they can get more Ethernet
| throughput from the LANCE than the 586. 

	No, that's the 82586.
| 
| (disclaimer: obviously I work for AMD but I believe these statements
| are true facts. I am not an authorized representative of the company
| and these are not official statements.)
| 
| By the way, the 786 also exists, it's a graphics chip.

	82* again...

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*