Re: The Apple II is crap

[Me <noone@nowhere.com>]

P D aka Sinclair_QL <do.not.disturb@get.it.spammer.net> wrote in
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> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:10:43 -0500, Exegete 
> <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
>>
>> You're right about the 386Sx, butI'm nto so sure about the 486SLC. My
>> memory isn't too clear, but I thought the 486SLC was merely an
>> enhanced 386DX.
>>
>> Roy
>>
> 
> 486SLC was a Cyrix processor that emulated the 386 but was supposed to
> have 486SX performance.
> 
> Regarding 386sx you are absolutely right... that was however IIRC the
> last time Intel employed that technique as the 486SX just lacked the
> FPU (or according to other well informed sources... they were just
> damaged during production and rebadged ;-) Of course their FPUs were
> full fledged 486DXs ;-)

Not quite the last time intel used the trick, see the recently introduced 
i486GX documented here:

http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/datashts/272755.htm

in particular:

*  16-bit external data bus