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From: Willem Wals <walsw@usoft.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IBM P166+ (CYRIX) an  i486_MACHINE ?
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:47:33 +0100
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tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
> [SNIP]
> The 5x586 is a 486 chip multiplied by 5 times.  33x5=133 according to AMD's
> logic I guess. ;-)  This is explained on AMD's website.
No that counting error was made for DX4 that does 3x33MHZ=100MHZ and so
they thought lets be consistent (think back of xt-times with the 1M
memory limit) DX5=4x33.33333MHz makes 133MHz

Oh whats in a name anyway ;-)

Willem Wals
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