From: ykhan@gandalf.ca (Yousuf Khan) Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 16:05:45 GMT
In <1993Apr21.131307.18788@microware.com> adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg) writes:
>Aha! There's the problem--you're comparing against a 486. The
>Pentium FPU is slow _when_compared_to_other_64-bit_processors (Alpha,
>for instance).
What do you mean other "64-bit processors"? The 586 is not one of them.
It has some elements of 64-bit in its external bus design, but all
of its registers are 32-bit or 80-bit (FPU).
Yousuf Khan