BusinessWeek’s June 1 cover story on Intel Corp, which puts its rushing out of the P5 in a highly positive light, makes passing mention of an 80586 machine it’s designed under the code-name Panther, that OEM customers will be able to license, describing it as a personal computer with workstation power: we wonder whether this has anything to do with an upgradable machine Digital Equipment Corp seems to be using where you could yank out the 80486 and substitute a P5, although others have started announcing 80586-ready machines; the same piece claims that Intel could reach its turn-of-the-century 100m-transistor chip a year or two early.
