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- From: Hamish.Moffatt%f3.n30173.z3@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Can I use 8087 on 80286 motherboard?
- Message-ID: <714025198.F00004@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 09:45:29 GMT
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- In a msg on <Aug 01 01:23>, CHU JEFFREY (chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU ) writes:
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- CJ> cost). It is suppose do 3x the performance compare to the
- CJ> built-in co-processor. All 486DX (exception of a few) have
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- I think I read somewhere that the Weitek is for simple mathematics, while the
- Intel is for floating point. eg they both have seperate purposes. Can anyone
- confirm this?
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- Hamish
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