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to: William Cook
from: Hamish Moffatt
date: 1997-01-28 21:43:00
subject: 6X86 CPU, MOTHERBOARD AND 32MB E

Hello William!

Saturday January 25 1997 00:56, William Cook wrote to Glenn Alderton:

 >    If you did'nt already know this, the reason most 64 bit Video cards
 > don't run on 586's is that they are 64 bit and 586's run on a 32 bit
 > external data path. 586's are just beefed up 486's.
 > cya

Incorrect. PCI as implemented in PCs is only 32 bit anyway. 64 bit in the video
card sense is in the video card's memory bus, not to the host computer,
which is not yet possible.


Regards,
Hamish

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