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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: Is there any merit to the 486SX?
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- In <1992Dec31.193905.3806@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
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- >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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- I'm not so certain about that. This has been debated fairly heavily.
- But it's my understanding that the X server does not use much in the way of
- math functions anyway, mostly just integer math.
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- However, a lot of Unix software does use the coprocessor, including many X
- programs. So it is useful.
- --
- sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
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