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- From: paranjpe@leland.Stanford.EDU (Milind D Paranjpe)
- Subject: Can I use 8087 on 80286 motherboard?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.044519.9681@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 04:45:19 GMT
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- I finally upgraded from an 8088 to an 80286. Can I use my 8087 on the new
- motherboard? I noticed that the motherboard has a 14.31818MHz crystal near
- the 80287 socket. Does this mean that the coprocessor actually runs at
- 4.77MHz?
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- Thanks for email responses, (and sorry if this is an FAQ)
- Milind Paranjpe
- paranjpe@leland.stanford.edu
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