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**A note on VESA support of 486 chipsets.
Many chipsets state  that they support VESA local  bus.  In some cases
these actually  implement VLB somewhat  like PCI, where it  is entirly
decoupled from the CPU bus. Chipsets  that do not state they work with
VLB,  may  be found  on  motherboards  that  contain VLB  slots.   VLB
is  *basically*  The 486  CPU  pinout in  a  slot  form. Unless  these
m/boards contain  some additional  chips, there VLB  implementation is
directly coupled to the CPU.

**Datasheets:...
*_IBM...
*ACC Micro...
*ALD...
*ALi...
*AMD . . . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Chips & Technologies...
*Contaq  . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Efar Microsystems [no datasheets, some info]...
*ETEQ...
*Faraday...
*Forex . . . . . . [List only, no datasheets found]...
*Intel...
**82496/491     Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P5 Pentium) 03/22/93
***Notes:...
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:
o   High Performance Second Level Cache
    - Zero Walt States at 66 MHz
    - Two-way Set Associative
    - Write-Back with MESI Protocol
    - Concurrent CPU Bus and Memory Bus Operation
    - Boundary Scan
o   Pentium Processor
    - Chip Set Version of Pentium Processor
    - Superscalar Architecture
    - Enhanced Floating Point
    - On-chip SK Code and SK Data Caches
    - See Pentium Processor User's Manual Volume 2 for more 
      Information
o   Highly Flexible
    - 256K to 512K with parity
    - 32, 64, or 128-Bit Wide Memory Bus
    - Synchronous, Asynchronous, and Strobed Memory Bus Operation
    - Selectable Bus Widths, Line Sizes, Transfers, and Burst Orders
o   Full Multiprocessing Support 
    - Concurrent CPU, Memory Bus, and Snoop Operations
    - Complete MESI Protocol
    - Internal/External Parity Generation/Checking
    - Supports Read-for Ownership, Write-Allocation, and Cache-to-
      Cache Transfers

**82497/492   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94...
**82498/493   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94...
**
**Later chipsets (basic spec):
**440 series:
***440FX (Natoma)       05/06/96...
***440LX (Balboa)       08/27/97...
***440BX (Seattle)      c:Apr'98...
***440DX (?)            c:?...
***440EX (?)            c:Apr'98...
***440GX (Marlinespike) 06/29/98...
***440ZX & 440ZX-66 (?) 01/04/99...
***440ZX-M (?)          05/17/99...
***440MX (Banister)     05/17/99...
**450NX  (?)            06/29/98:...
**?????  (Profusion)    c:99...
**800 series...
*Headland/G2...
*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
*Logicstar...
*Motorola...
*OPTi...
*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
*SIS...
*Symphony...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
**UM82C088     PC/XT Integration Chip                              <91
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:...
**UM82C230     286AT MORTAR Chip Set                               <91...
**UM82C210     386SX/286 AT Chip Set                               <91...
**UM82C3xx     Twinstar & UM82C336F/N & UM82C39x [no datasheet]      ?...
**UM82C380     386 HEAT PC/AT Chip Set                             <91...
**UM82C480     386/486 PC Chip Set                                 c91...
**UM82C493/491 ??????????????? [no datasheet]                        ?...
**UM8498/8496  486 VL Chipset  "Super Energy Star Green"[no dsheet]c94...
**UM8881/8886  HB4 PCI Chipset "Super Energy Star Green"[no dsheet]c94...
**UM8890       Pentium chipset [no datasheet]                        ?...
**
**Support Chips:
**UM82152      Cache Controller (AUStek A38152 clone)              <91...
**UM82C852     Multi I/O For XT                                    <91...
**UM82C206     Integrated Peripheral Controller                    <91...
**UM82c45x     Serial/Parallel chips                                 ?...
**Other chips:...
*Unresearched:...
*VIA...
*VLSI...
*Western Digital...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
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