From: norsk@mobius (Doug Thompson) Subject: Re: Pentium P5 (586) vs. i486 upgradable socket? Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:52:59 GMT
In article <1993Jan7.165948.28260@athena.mit.edu>, Alex Nemirovsky
<AN72958%LTUVAX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu> writes:
> just a quick questions.. rumor has it that the P5 is going to be a
> 100 MIPS machine... and most highend 486's are about 20 MIPS.
I just bet its marketing hype again
before the 486 chips hit the street intel was saying 15 mips for 33
mhz and 26 for 50 mhz. Probably will be in the 50-60 mhz range
in a real machine
>
> does anyone know if the upgrade socket on i486's allows you
> to stick in a P5 or something of that nature?
sorry no
> I have heard (again hearsay) that is there is a chip in the
> upgrade slot the orginal Cpu is bypassed.
>
> if anyone knows... please straighten me out.
>
> just to know if I can upgrade if a decide to go with a 486 and not wait
> for the P5 whick might not be supported by Linux anytime soon.
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