80486 (was Algol vs Fortran was RE: VHDL vs Verilog)

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Lance Lyon once stated:
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> >  The other side of the coin is that the 2.6Gh machine sitting below my
> desk
> > can do things that my old system (a 150MHz 486 with 32M RAM) would die
> > trying to do 
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> Don't think 486's ever reached this speed. I know AMD released a 133MHz
> version (the AM 5x86) and that 150MHz & 160MHz were planned but not (I
> believe) ever released.

  You're right---I had an AMD 5x86 chip in that box.  

  -spc (and I knew it was around 150MHz ... )