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- From: doug@UC780.UMD.EDU (Deac Moo of the UGC)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: 486sx questions
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.150936.4633@socrates.umd.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:09:36 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.135047.13578@nstn.ns.ca> <76814@ut-emx.uucp>,<DOCONNOR.92Jul30130104@potato.sedona.intel.com>
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- In article <DOCONNOR.92Jul30130104@potato.sedona.intel.com>, doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
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- >Both the Intel486(tm) SX and DX have 32-bit external busses.
- >The Intel486 DX has an FPU, the Intel486 SX does not. And the pinouts
- >are a tiny bit different. If your 486SX board has the right stuff ( either
- >a "Vacancy" socket or signal-routing jumpers ) you can upgrade
- >it to an Overdrive processor ( equivalent to a clock-doubled 486DX ),
- >or maybe to a DX.
-
- Ohhh. Ok. Now I am confused... so you can go from S(u)X to a DX2? I thought
- the only upgrade path before was from S(u)X to DX? ...
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- Not that Intel doesn't get roasted enough already, but it's pretty hellaciously
- confusing these days.
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