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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:51:43 EDT
- Reply-To: "Jason Watson" <jwatson@ST6000.SCT.EDU>
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- From: "Jason Watson" <jwatson@ST6000.SCT.EDU>
- Subject: 486SX
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- A 486SX is merely a 486DX with the built-in math coprocessor purposely
- disabled. My opinion is that it's a marketing ploy by Intel to get a
- bigger share of the market and offer yet another choice to the
- already-mostly-confused public. Someone said that an Overdriven 486SX
- would be the same as a 486DX2. This is almost right, except for the
- missing coprocessor (aka: FPU). You might not see much difference except
- in AutoCAD or a similar math-calculations-based program (Falcon 3.0?)
- My 2 cents...
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