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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Is there any merit to the 486SX?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.193905.3806@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:39:05 GMT
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- In <1hv2pqINN8mo@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> schottd@ucs.orst.edu (Derek Schott) writes:
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- >> Obviously if you're buying a 486SX you don't anticipate needing a math
- >>coprocessor, and if you had you'd be buying a 486DX.
- >>sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
- >>Project Vincent ICSS Resource Unit
- >>SCO ODT, Arc/Info, Atlas GIS 2142 Agronomy Hall
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- >So to answer my question, who needs a math coprocessor anyways?
- >What programs really benefit from it, and how much? It sounds like
- >one of those things that might benefit certain applications, but
- >hardly be noticable to the average user.
-
- Under DOS? A coprocessor buys you improvement for spreadsheet work,
- CAD, most sophisticated drawing packages, etc. Since this is the sort
- of thing I would expect high end machines to be used for, I would want
- a coprocessor. If you're just playing (most) games, using a telecom
- package, running a BBS, or something like that, then it doesn't buy
- you much of anything.
-
- If you run UNIX on it, of course, you are then using X for your GUI,
- which *does* use the coprocessor.
-
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