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>	Ok - can someone please clue me in here: is the Intel/HP baby going to
>be the 686 or 786?  If the answer is the latter (ie 786) then what on earth
>is the 686 supposed to improve on?

The P7 will be the first fruits of the Intel/HP alliance.

As for the P6, no one knows what it's supposed to improve upon.  However,
there are plenty of ways that they can improve upon the Pentium design,
believe it or not.


>	I'm beginning to wonder if they will EVER release the PowerPC... I mean
>if Intel releases its next generation chip (see above) supposed to be out end
>of '95, then it would be kinda useless of the blue giant to do it.  Why buy a
>Concorde now when a passenger stratospheric jet is going to come out any day
>now?

The big winner of the PowerPC market thus far is Apple.  IBM seems to enjoy
twiddling their thumbs on delaying "the next revolution in computing."


>	Ok... Q.#2: if that remains the case, which as I understand you wrote
>above as being "any kind of motherboard can handle a DX4 chip provided the chip
>socket has the right amount of pinholes in it...", why is it that there are
>motherboards out there which have, using the DX2 chip for example, been
>"optimised" to run a DX2?  Yes, I DO realise that all DX based chips run 33Mhz
>extrnally no matter what their internal speed is, so I guess what I am really
>asking is "why are there motherboards out there which say they can run a DX2
>chip for example?"  Is it just the amount of pinholes and that's it, or is
>there something more?

That's probably marketing hype.  As far as I know, there is no such board
that is "optimized" to run a DX2.  Any board that can support a 33 MHz bus
speed can take either a DX, DX2, or DX4.


>	And a general question: assuming Origin survives a year from now - and
>I guess this has to do with a lot of other soft. companies as well, including
>EA who have released a Pentium-only playable US Navy Fighters (or whatever) -
>will they still be releasing software for ye old 486s?  IF so, please give me
>reasons why you believe so.  Oh, and don't email me either - a post will do. :-)

Any game released "for the Pentium only" will also run on 486s.  But then,
that might be as meaningful as saying that WCIII will also run on 386s.

				- Allen "Ninja" Kim