386 to 486

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Tue Jan 23 18:07:44 2001

Jeff Hellige skrev:

>>On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
>>
>>Did TI make a 486SLC too? I thought that was an IBM-exclusive design.

> Now that I've thought about it a while, I was probably
>thinking of the 486DLC when I typed that. I used to have a 386
>motherboard that had an updated BIOS for the DLC, which was
>pincompatible with the 386DX. It had the DLC already installed when
>I bought it new and though it wasn't as fast as a 486DX part, it was
>better than the 386's I had been running.

The 486SLC is compatible with the i386, too, and runs happily along with an
i387. It's not particularly slow either, in particular due to its L1 cache.

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