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How was the AMD 386 different from the Intel 386? Did it have any advantages?

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Actually, at that time AMD (and others) were still making clones of Intel processors. As such, they were effectively as identical as possible. It was not until later that AMD started diverging from Intel's specifications with 3DNow extensions and eventually different sockets and a completely different architecture, retaining only the x86 instruction set as a commonality. – Bobson Mar 11 at 19:45
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