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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
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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.

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