Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!husc6!ddl 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 Lines: 21 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.*