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- From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.arch
- Subject: Re: 486DX light in a 486SX tunnel.
- Message-ID: <15054@ksr.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 14:39:34 EDT
- References: <IeYSMJK00Voz8Vf8ZN@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Aug19.155448.18248@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca> <1992Aug19.232105.2816@ncsu.edu> <GLEW.92Aug19235845@pdx007.intel.com>
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- glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes:
- >>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!).
- >In case y'all haven't heard, the original i486sx's were, indeed, just
- >the dx with FP disabled.
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- And, to keep people from arguing over it again (ha), the disabled FP unit
- was not tested, increasing yield and decreasing testing time, both factors
- making the SX chips somewhat cheaper even from the start.
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- Brrrrr. Me defending Intel. What is the world coming to? ;-)
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