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From: mlawless@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mike Lawless)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 80486
Message-ID: <2670@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 88 17:06:37 GMT
References: <15374@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1300@inuxd.UUCP> <3472@ttidca.TTI.CO
Reply-To: mlawless@ncrwic.UUCP (Mike Lawless)
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In article <23671@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <3472@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) write
>|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.

>I would like to point out that the 80586 is already out. It is Intel's
>Ethernet interface chip. 

Not exactly.  Intel's Ethernet controller is the 82586, not the 80586.  In
general, their general-purpose processors are 80xxx, and their specialize
coprocessors are 82xxx.  Presumably, the rumored 80586 will indeed be a 
derivative of the 80386 (and '486).
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