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bombcartoday at 1:31 PM1 replyview on HN

I remember arguments (and benchmarks) around all the variations of the 486 since the bus speed/clock speed was uncoupled (the /2 is clock doubling). For some applications, a 50Mhz 486 with a 50Mhz bus would beat a DX/2 66Mhz with a 33Mhz bus.

And sometimes the DX/4 100Mhz would be slowest of all those at 25Mhz bus.


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Sheeplatortoday at 1:46 PM

Nearly correct. The DX/4 100MHz had a 33MHz bus. The DX/4 75MHz had the 25MHz bus. I remember well because I had both.

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