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- From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.165651.16449@tandon.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 16:56:51 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.202205.26297@crd.ge.com> <1852@junkyard.UUCP> <1992Aug27.191235.16283@crd.ge.com>
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- In article <1992Aug27.191235.16283@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- > Do I read this that you can't use an SX with a Witek chip? Do you
- >really have to buy the DX with the FPU so you can't use it? Tell me I'm
- >misreading this.
-
- Yes and no... most manufacturers probably cannot afford to put
- two sockets down on the board (one for the overdrive and the
- other for a possibly never-used Weitek). Soooo... the Weitek
- go bye-bye.
-
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