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In article <3bcf6s$5...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
GM Enierga <gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:

>	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 P6 will be a speed demon.  The slowest version will be clocked
at 170mHz (PC Week, November 16 issue).  It will also have 6 million 
transistors aboard, with improved superscalar and branch prediction, etc.
PC Week didn't print any details. 

>	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?

	Well...  IBM wants to release a PowerPC platform optimized for
a native version of OS2.  Evidently someone at IBM said that talks have
broken off for IBM to license PowerMac OS, and thus the unified PowerPC
Reference Platform is officially vaporware.  (grin)  This also came from 
the Nov. 16 issue of PC Week.
 
>	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 chi
>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?

	Ah yes I think I know what you mean.  Yep some motherboards out
there can be toted as being "optimized for DX2s" because they might have
a larger L2 cache or perhaps a fast ISA bus that is capable of 10mHz
speed in addition to the standard 8mHz speed (my DX2-66's AMI BIOS has
a setting for this.).  I don't put much stock in these features though,
because having upgraded some clients' DX-33 to a 66 I do not see much
difference between their systems and mine.

TRH Sends