Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!iuvax!inuxc!inuxd!caulton From: caulton@inuxd.UUCP (D Caulton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 80486 Message-ID: <1300@inuxd.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 88 16:30:31 GMT References: <15374@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: AT&T Consumer Products, Indianapolis Lines: 21 > Has anyone seen information on the 80486, recently -- especially projected > production dates? I would also like to know what new features it's supposed > to have. 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. Infoworld had some rumors about it a month or two ago--you might look there. As I recall it will be an awesome chip, with full math coprocessor functions built into the instruction set (there will, I think, be two versions--one weak, which will have these functions, and a streamlined one without them.) The first machines running with it are supposed to run at 40 MHz, going up from there. But it will be a might expensive- these machines will cost upwards of 20,000 samolians. Not a bad deal for a machine more powerful than most minis, though. Anybody else have more information on these? David Caulton AT&T Bell Labs Indianapolis, IN