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This is the same reason I trust the CYRIX 6x86, it is a damn
hyperactive 486. In fact I held onto my 486-120 for quite some time, if
they had only increased the cache and memory bandwidth on those things,
keep the damn thing simple you intel bastards.


On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, John Kelly wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Nov 1997 03:08:14 -0600 (CST), Jim Bryant
> <jbryant@unix.tfs.net> wrote:
> 
> >this is going to be a real nightmare for intel... how many pentiums
> >are out there, and i'm begionning to notice a lot of pentium-specific
> >stuff out there now.  the instruction seqquence in question seems to
> >me to be a type that will be in widespread use in the very near
> >future.
> 
> Now I'm really glad I bought a bunch of 486 processors and VLB
> motherboards on closeout. :-)
> 
> John
> 
> 
>