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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Can 16MHz 80387 be installed in a 33MHz 80386 system?
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:23:40 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9212182324.13@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1gn8voINN1fg@iraul1.ira.uka.de> <1gqvidINNiel@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
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- In article <1gqvidINNiel@hpscit.sc.hp.com> matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm) writes:
- >|S| Norbert Juffa (S_JUFFA@iravcl.ira.uka.de) wrote:
- >: In <1992Dec15.101259.6401@sei.cmu.edu> griest@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu writes:
- >:
- >: > I have been told that you can install a 16MHz '387DX in a coprocessor
- >: > socket to work with a 33MHz '386DX and it will work ok (running Math
- >: > instructions at the 16MHz rate). I am not convinced. Has anyone done
- >: > this? How does it work? Are their any jumpers that must be set?
- >: >
- >: > Tom
- >: >
- >:
- >You're probably mixing up the 287 with the 387. The 286 coprocessor, the
- >287, runs asyncronously to the motherboard clock, and therefore can be
- >used at different speeds than the main cpu clock. In fact, my 4 year
- >old 386 20Mhz motherboard has a 287 socket in it, and I'm using an Am287
- >12Mhz. It works great, and is cheap as heck ;->
- >
- >The 387 is syncronous, and therefore must be rated at the same speed as
- >the motherboard cpu i.e. you need a 387DX-33.
-
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- You should tell this to Micronics who have sold 386/33 mother boards
- that could use 387's of various speeds, all you had to do was change
- the xtal for the 387, and set a jumper.
-
- It's a simple question of motherboard design.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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