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- From: gb03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (GEORGE PHILIP BLUHM)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: SX vs DX
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.000825.37694@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 00:08:25 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 49
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- In article <C0G31J.1oD@news.udel.edu>, oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu (Oliver Wea
- therbee) writes:
- >In article 14870@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu, jdcarmack@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu () writ
- es:
- >> In article <1993Jan5.130856.1@vax1.umkc.edu>, edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
- >> > In article <4188.5.uupcb@uttsbbs.uucp>, john.lechmanik@uttsbbs.uucp (John L
- echmanik) writes:
- >> >>
- >
- > ***** lots of stuff deleted *****
- >
- >> Time out. We began this discussion first about 387 math coprocessors,
- >> then it changed into SX vs DX. An overdrive
- >> chip is not a math coprocessor, but it is installed in the coprocessor slot.
- >> As far as I know, it can be used on a SX or DX, but
- >> I don't know much about them, other than that propoganda film that Intel
- >> puts out, but I would have to say that whether a graphics accelarator
- >> speeds it up more than an overdrive chip would be purely application depen-
- >> dent. On the other hand, an overdrive chip would speed up all apps, DOS or
- >> Windows, while a graphics card would only affect Windows and graphics
- >> packages.
- >>
- >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >> | John Carmack | "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" |
- >> | Academic Computing Service | -Mad Hatter |
- >> | Miami University | |
- >> | Oxford, Ohio | |
- >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >>
- >
- >I'll simply preface this with the statement " I know this is probably a stupid
- >question, but what the hell:"
- >
- >Is there an overdrive chip available for 386sx systems? Mine is pretty much max
- ed-out
- >except for that nagging coprocessor slot which I can't bring myself to fill bec
- ause
- >it wouldn't really do me much good since I'm not a big spreadsheet/database use
- r.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- > Oliver Weatherbee
- >
-
- You might try the cyrix 486dx. I understand it is pin compatible with the
- Int** 386 with the 486 instruction set and 1K cache on board.
-
- Phyle THEE McNasty
-