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From: takaharu@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Taka Mizutani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DX3/99
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Date: 6 Apr 93 20:29:53 GMT
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In article <IISAKKIL.93Apr6153602@lk-hp-22.hut.fi>,
iisakkil@lk-hp-22.hut.fi (Mika Iisakkila) wrote:

 :Because of some contract, IBM is not allowed to sell its
 :486 chips to third parties, so these chips are unlikely to become
 :available in any non-IBM machines. 

I saw in this months PC or PC World an ad for computers using IBM's 486SLC.
So I don't think IBM is restricted in selling their chips, at least not
anymore. A clock-tripled 486, even without coprocessor would be great,
especially with 16k on-board cache. Make it 386 pin-compatible, and you
have the chip upgrade that dreams are made of :-)

Taka Mizutani
takaharu@mail.sas.upenn.edu
