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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (1284)6/11/1998 5:21:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14778
 
Howard,
Thanks, that's what I was trying to find out. Someone told me there was a difference. The 32 bit bus can create a bottleneck? If I just get a 586 chip for now it won't matter will it? For now I have to settle for the fastest chip that will work well with this board, even though P-200 systems are so cheap right now.

Thanks,

Bob

PS To change the cpu would I have to remove the mother board?



To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (1284)6/11/1998 8:05:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14778
 
>>32 bit memory and data bus and later 64 bit memory and data bus<<

Sloppy thinking on my part. I should have said 32 bit data bus and 64 bit data bus.

And the more I think about it I believe the Merced is a lot closer to a true 64 bit computer than a 486 or Pentium. The Merced will use a 64 bit word size. Where as a 486 and a Pentium only use a 32 bit word.


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