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- From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.183804.8605@tandon.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 18:38:04 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.155448.18248@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca> <1992Aug26.173519.22421@unislc.uucp>
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- In article <1992Aug26.173519.22421@unislc.uucp> larsen@unislc.uucp (Steve Larsen) writes:
- >
- >Ah, but there is not more work, actually less. The reason that they
- >offer this chip for less is that they don't have to spend the man-hours
- >testing the coprocessor.
-
- Yeah... like maybe 1/10 cent per chip (test vectors are
- cheap)
-
- >It is also artificially deflated in price
- >because Intel wishes to make it the entry level processor and knock
- >AMD and others out of the water with their 386 chips.
-
- *THAT'S* more like it.
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