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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!ergo
  3. From: ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch)
  4. Subject: Re: Is there any merit to the 486SX?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan1.195217.13246@netcom.com>
  6. Organization: UESPA
  7. References: <1hnr72INNank@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <sheldon.725583172@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> <1hv2pqINN8mo@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <1992Dec31.193905.3806@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
  8. Distribution: usa
  9. Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:52:17 GMT
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  12. In <1992Dec31.193905.3806@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
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  15. >If you run UNIX on it, of course, you are then using X for your GUI,
  16. >which *does* use the coprocessor.
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  18. Hmm, that might explain complaints that DesqView-X is painfully slow.
  19. Perhaps this product should have a "math coprocessor required" label.
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  22.     ergo@netcom.com             Isaac Rabinovitch
  23.         {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo    Santa Cruz, CA
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  25.     Abstinence makes the heart grow rounder.
  26.         -- Prescot Gooberstein
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