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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood   
   Re: So far OT ..... DVD+R v DVD-R ... Wh   
   01 Mar 25 03:46:51   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:28:24 +1100, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote:   
      
   > There is also a 486DX4, which runs at 4 times the clock speed.   
      
   The CPU clock was only 3× the memory clock, not 4×. There was quite a lot   
   of grumbling over Intel’s (mis)use of the “DX” suffix number here.   
      
   Intel, of course, insisted that the number was just a number, it didn’t   
   bear any relation to the CPU clock multiplier.   
      
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