Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!nrl-cmf!ukma!cwjcc!gatech!purdue!decwrl!pyramid!prls!philabs!ttidca!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 80486 Message-ID: <3472@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 1 Dec 88 18:00:47 GMT References: <15374@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1300@inuxd.UUCP> Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) Organization: The Cat Factory Lines: 22 In article <1300@inuxd.UUCP> caulton@inuxd.UUCP (D Caulton) writes: }> Has anyone seen information on the 80486, recently -- especially projected }> production dates? ... }I talked to Intel just about a month ago--they refuse to officially }acknowledge the chip as having any features at all. They have only }admitted it exists grudgingly. ... For what it's worth (not much): 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. Source of the rumor was an upper management type (_not_ from Intel) who claimed (semi?)direct knowledge of these things. -- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, hollombe@ttidca.tti.com) Illegitimati Nil Citicorp(+)TTI Carborundum 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 452-9191, x2483 Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun|philabs|psivax}!ttidca!hollombe