Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!crocus!imacbeath From: imacbeath@crocus.waterloo.edu (Ian MacBeath, Conrad Grebel College) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 80x86 numbering (was: 80486) Message-ID: <10254@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 6 Dec 88 07:34:01 GMT References: <15374@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <45900175@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: imacbeath@crocus.waterloo.edu (Ian MacBeath, Conrad Grebel College) Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Lines: 12 In article <45900175@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >Rahul Dhesi writes: >>Apocalypse approaches rapidly. From 8086 we derived 80286, and then >>things became more orderly as we went to 80386, 80486, and now 80586. >>When we reach 80986, what will happen? > >Use hex of course: 80a86, 80b86 ... 80f86. Then go to base 36 - >80g86,... 80z86. Rumor has it that that is exactly what Boeing is going to do: >7a7, 7b7 ... Too late. There's already an 80C86. The CMOS version which gets primarily used in laptops.