[ale] AMD 5X86 chips...

[dread at atlcom.net (andy)]

dZothMuellarg wrote:
> 
> ^benchmarks of my own and I've found that it is about as fast as a Penitum
> ^-75 (using non-optimized pentium code of course). I'm running linux under
> 
> Is the AMD 586 a Pentium?  WOuld pentium optimized code run on it?  Or
> is just a steriod filled 486?
> 
> --
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The latter . 5x86 is a steroid filled 486. 5K86 is the Pentium version that has a 
superscalar risc core from the AM29000 line if risc cpu's. Basically a risc chip 
optimised for x86 code. 

			../Andy