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- From: brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca (Brian J. Murrell")
- Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.155448.18248@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: InterLinx Support Services Inc.
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 15:54:48 GMT
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- ks3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenton Shaver) writes:
-
- >Could anyone clear this up for me?
- >I read it in some magazine, but my ECE
- >friend is credulous. Will my 487sx
- >just shut the 486sx down and take over?
-
- That's what I heard. IMHO the 486sx is a *big scam*.
-
- To get your 486sx you buy a chip which is a functional 486dx with the
- co-pro disabled (yes more work than a regular 486dx - yet cheaper!).
- At some point in the future you need the co-pro, so you buy a 487sx, which
- is just the regular 486dx with a 487sx stamp on it, which shuts down the
- 486sx crippled chip and takes over the machine running it like the 486dx
- it should have been!!
-
- The above is all rumour I've heard from many sources, and read in a trade
- rag. It is not the gospel!!
-
- brian
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