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- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 15:00:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.150026.3558@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <1992Aug19.154816.19802@hemlock.cray.com> <1370@eouk9.eoe.co.uk>
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- In article <1370@eouk9.eoe.co.uk> ahaley@eoe.co.uk (Andrew Haley) writes:
- >kak1@cray.com (Kevin Kramer) writes:
- >: In article <1992Aug19.155448.18248@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca> brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca (Brian J. Murrell") writes:
- [ ... ]
- >: >
- >: >That's what I heard. IMHO the 486sx is a *big scam*.
- >: >
- [ 486sx + 487 shuts off sx ... ]
- >:
- [ 486sx a faulty dx ... ]
- >No, you've got out of date info. Originally the 486sx _was_ a 486
- >with the FPU disabled. AFAIK, Intel now have a 486sx die without the
- >FPU, which is much cheaper to produce because it is much smaller.
- >Intel get up my nose too, but this isn't really a scam. I wouldn't
- >buy one, though.
- >
- >Andrew.
-
- Ah, acurate. SCAM, no, not really, you are buying the technology, not
- the plastic & silicon. It CAN make good sense. Instead of paying $300
- for a full blown 486DX now, buy the $90 SX part, then plug in the 487
- when the prices for the 487 come down to a more reasonable level, say
- $50 or so in a couple of years. If you don't really need the
- Coprocessor horepower now, why not reap the benifits of on-chip cache
- and improved instruction execution time vs a similarly priced 386?
-
- Heck, I'm still running a 386. I can't seem to justify the purchase of
- a 486xX when I'd never use it.
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