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- From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Those Intel Processors (what is SX/DX)
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 17:56:04 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, David.Norman@ttlg.UUCP (David Norman) says:
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- >Hello Mark!
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- >Answering a msg of <04 Sep 92>, from Mark Boltz to All:
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- >I would like to know what the "DX" and "SX" stand for. I know how they work in hard ware, but what dos DX really stand for ?????
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- >David
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- I don't think these two terms mean anything.
- If it does, intel has not made the meanings very well known.
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- The joke for a while was that sx stood for 'sucks'.
- I guess that means that dx stands for 'ducks'.
- If there is any meaning in this, it is very cryptic.
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