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- From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
- Message-ID: <9208192317.AA21043@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 03:17:50 GMT
- Article-I.D.: iecc.9208192317.AA21043
- References: <IeYSMJK00Voz8Vf8ZN@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <IeYSMJK00Voz8Vf8ZN@andrew.cmu.edu> you write:
- >Will my 487sx just shut the 486sx down and take over?
-
- Yup. The 487SX is merely a chip designed to separate money from suckers.
- Well-designed motherboards, such as the ones from Dell, have a single socket
- that can accept a 486DX, 486SX, or 487SX. If you get a 486SX and later
- decide that you need floating point, you merely pop it out and replace it
- with either a 486DX or 487SX. The two chips are functionally identical
- except for an extra pin on the 487SX, but the 486DX is considerably cheaper.
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- Regards,
- John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl
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