On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:16:31PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
>               Hi Statux,
> 
> > I thought the 486 turbo switches cut the speed in half (turbo off mode).
> > We used to have a 486DX2 which ran at 66MHz.. and 33MHz in turbo off.
> > <shrug>
> 
>  Yes, but this AMD "486" 100MHz  has different behaviour. Could indeed be 8MHZ 
> for extra power saving. And yes, of course this is an AMD and not an Intel. 
> The CPUID does not lie, and anyway, Intel never made 100MHz 486's. After the 
> 486 66MHz came the Pentium 75 :).

Actually, after AMD started having runaway success with their 100 Mhz
486 (and their 120 Mhz 486) Intel came out with one at 100 Mhz. I don't
recall if they also did a 120 or not.

Fred

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                    keeping watch on the wicked and the good.
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