Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrlnk!ncrwic!mlawless From: mlawless@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mike Lawless) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 80486 Message-ID: <2670@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> Date: 5 Dec 88 17:06:37 GMT References: <15374@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1300@inuxd.UUCP> <3472@ttidca.TTI.CO Reply-To: mlawless@ncrwic.UUCP (Mike Lawless) Organization: NCR Corporation, Wichita, Kansas Lines: 18 In article <23671@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes: >In article <3472@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) write >|About a year ago I caught a rumor that both the 80486 and 80586 chips >|already exist and are being used in-house at Intel. Supposedly, they were >|being kept off the market so as not to hurt 80386 sales. >I would like to point out that the 80586 is already out. It is Intel's >Ethernet interface chip. Not exactly. Intel's Ethernet controller is the 82586, not the 80586. In general, their general-purpose processors are 80xxx, and their specialize coprocessors are 82xxx. Presumably, the rumored 80586 will indeed be a derivative of the 80386 (and '486). -- Mike Lawless, NCR E&M Wichita, Box 20 (316) 636-8666 (NCR: 654-8666) 3718 N. Rock Road, Wichita, KS 67226 Mike.Lawless@Wichita.NCR.COM {ece-csc,hubcap,gould,rtech}!ncrcae!ncrwic!Mike.Lawless {sdcsvax,cbatt,dcdwest,nosc.ARPA}!ncr-sd!ncrwic!Mike.Lawless