Heheh.. look on http://www.x86.org and its all there. The P6 manual is also
complete in most respects and they've not done anything stupid
> If another company was to copy this stuff to make a 100% Pentium
> compatible chip, you can bet the Intel lawyers would have a field day.
Not true.
> So it is impossible to make a Pentium(Pro) clone, but you _can_
> make a faster "mostly compatible" processor Like Cyrix has done.
Not true. More relevant however is that the basis of people like cyrix is making
very fast 386/486 clones and there isnt a lot to gain with the few new
instructions of a P5/P6.
Alan