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  2. From: wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Should I buy the Cyrix chip ?
  5. Message-ID: <20303@plains.NoDak.edu>
  6. Date: 13 Sep 92 15:57:57 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: plains.20303
  8. References: <Bu2sJp.LIw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Sep9.015720.10167@philabs.philips.com>
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  10. Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network
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  14. In article <1992Sep9.015720.10167@philabs.philips.com> kkt@philabs.philips.com (Kim-Kiat Tan) writes:
  15. >In article <Bu2sJp.LIw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jas37876@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John A. Slagel) writes:
  16. >>     But, the salesman said the Cyrix chip's math coprocessor doesn't
  17. >>     work completely.
  18. >>
  19. >    This is the first time I heard that Cyrix's chip is buggy, just wonder
  20.  
  21. The original poster was referring to the Cyrix 486DLC, which is an 80486
  22. clone.  He wasnt meaning math coprocessors, he meant the ON BOARD math
  23. coprocessor on the 486..
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  25. Scott
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