From: wade@nb.rockwell.com (Wade Guthrie) Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: 21 Apr 1993 00:15:53 GMT
bfornshe@s850.mwc.edu (Ben J Fornshell) writes:
>The pentium chip is 100% compatible, the only differences lie in its
>improvements (if you call expansion improvement) of the command set.
Hmmm. I was under the impression that the pentium was super-scalar
and pipelined as well. This is a substantial architecture change over
the 386/486.
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