Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Cyrix anyone? | Date | Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:53:11 +0100 (BST) |
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> Try this: look at http://www.intel.com/ at the Pentium specs. > Among them you will see that certain info is _NOT_ publically > available about the Pentium's "special" features - you can sign > an NDA to get the info though.
Heheh.. look on http://www.x86.org and its all there. The P6 manual is also complete in most respects and they've not done anything stupid
> If another company was to copy this stuff to make a 100% Pentium > compatible chip, you can bet the Intel lawyers would have a field day.
Not true.
> So it is impossible to make a Pentium(Pro) clone, but you _can_ > make a faster "mostly compatible" processor Like Cyrix has done.
Not true. More relevant however is that the basis of people like cyrix is making very fast 386/486 clones and there isnt a lot to gain with the few new instructions of a P5/P6.
Alan
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