From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson)
Subject: Re: DX3/99
Originator: guyd@pal500.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Austin
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In article <1993Apr3.163556.24998@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus) writes:
> In article <1993Apr3.011823.22935@kpc.com>, pcarmack@gimp.kpc.com (Phil Carmack) writes:
> > ....there are people who are performance driven enough to do it.
> > If it weren't so people wouldn't buy Pentium(tm) systems in the first
> > place since they could buy a 486DX3/99 that would run their existing 
> > applications faster.  Certainly a 486DX3/99 is in the same "league" as
> > a Pentium(tm).
>  
>   Is the 486DX3/99 anything more than a myth?  I haven't heard of it
> from any source that I trust, and I sure don't see any ads for DX3/99
> machines in Computer Shopper.  Intel is pretty busy with the Pentium
> right now; I can't seem them introducing their own competition.
> 

IBM has displayed a 486DX3/99 as a *TECHNOLOGY DEMO*.

This effectivly means - "here's some neat technology". It is not
a commitment to make such an item...

> -- 
>  Keith Mancus    <mancus@butch.jsc.nasa.gov>                           
>  N5WVR           <mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov>                        
>  "Black powder and alcohol, when your states and cities fall,          
>   when your back's against the wall...." -Leslie Fish                  

Guy
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