OT: Pentium processor sizes

[Sean Caron]

... sorry, I really dislike Google Mail sometimes :O Here's a URL:

http://www.intel.com/design/pentium/datashts/29054401.pdf

Also a nice full-color pic here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_OverDrive

Best,

Sean


On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote:

> There absolutely was a P5 Overdrive from Intel for 486 motherboards ... I
> saw a few of them in the wild back in the day...
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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 5:51 PM, jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
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>> On 7/10/2015 1:21 PM, Joe Giliberti wrote:
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>>> Hey. I'm sorry for the off topic post, but I couldn't think of another
>>> forum to ask my question. I'm just looking for information as to whether
>>> there are different sizes Pentium processor dependent upon whether the
>>> processor is for a desktop or laptop. I want to see if I can give my old
>>> Hewlett Packard OmniBook a little more juice.
>>>
>> I don't recall there being any different processors in the first
>> Pentium.  The big effort in power reduction was by a group who did a power
>> reduction project with the Pentium 3.  Many of the laptops had full sized
>> Pentiums with novel cooling to make them work in a portable laptop form
>> factor.
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>> There were a series of projects where Intel did processors to upgrade
>> previous families of chips with the newer technology.  For example a 486
>> chip engineered to be happy with a 386 pin bus, but running at a higher
>> clock, and similar upgrades for 486 systems. These were called "Overdrive"
>> and were not power reduced as a goal of the product.
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>> The Pentium was a big enough step that I don't know of any such for the
>> 486, where a Pentium could be stuffed in.  The BIOS became enough of a
>> factor in making the Pentium go that it was necessary. Such dropins they
>> had were all self contained that I mention in the previous paragraph.
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>> The next act for Pentium (and quoting from this article) was MMX added
>> in.  Pentium II of course went to the infamous Slot 1 / 2 form factor.
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors#32-bit_processors:_P5_microarchitecture
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>> If you look up the processor you have in your Omnibook, some of the
>> Pentium P5's could be upgraded, but you had to be careful as some had
>> issues of being interchanged.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jim
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