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The 486SLC kept the 16-bit bus, but I don't remember what it was about the DLC but it was much slower than an Intel 486 of the same clockspeed even thought it w
by bluedino 4y ago
The 486SLC kept the 16-bit bus, but I don't remember what it was about the DLC but it was much slower than an Intel 486 of the same clockspeed even thought it was a full 32-bit chip. I want to say it was something like it still used 386 motherboard designs (in both cases).
- myself248 4y agoISTR the SLC introduced SMM that allowed laptops to use the main CPU to do things that otherwise would've required an elaborate embedded controller. And thus began the trend of having entire layers of functionality in the CPU that were outside the view of the OS which thought it was running at ring 0....