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- From: grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Re: 387 and windows
- Message-ID: <4961@sumax.seattleu.edu>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 16:16:36 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sumax.4961
- References: <Bu4255.44H@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA
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- In article <Bu4255.44H@acsu.buffalo.edu> lammens@acsu.buffalo.edu (Joe Lammens) writes:
- >Does putting a 387 coprocessor in a 386 machine speed up windows
- >significantly?
- >
- >Please reply by e-mail.
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Joe Lammens.
-
- I pop a Cyrix 387 on my 386/40 and I don't see any improvement (those that
- can be seen with the naked eye and not some benchmark). It's different with
- calculations in Excel however. I'd say if you have the spare money, get
- memory, memory, and memory.
-
- George
-