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How did the Cyrix 586 chip work in an Intel 486 computer?

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When I was a kid we had a 486 DX, 33mhz machine. Pretty sweet eh? Well as it got older we tricked it out, added 8 megs of ram so we could place Space Quest 6 and an 2x External CD-Rom drive etc... I understand how most of those things worked now that I've got my CS degree although it's still a litt…

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These chips were "586" replacements that were socket/chip-set compatible with the 486. They were reworked electrically, and reduced in functionality (mostly just clock speed though) to give a "586" instruction set to a "486 platform". The Intel ones…

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