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- From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
- Subject: Re: Can software be 486-specific?
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:55:33 GMT
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- >>IMHO, if there are in fact processor-specific advantages to requiring
- >>a 486, doing so makes sense.
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- >Yeah, but I don't see any sensible reason for not making 386+387 the
- >minimum requirement - the differences between a 486 and a system with 386+387
- >are not exactly major, from a programming point of view.
- >
- Actually, a 386+387 wouldn't be the minium requirement, since word is that
- NeXTSTEP 486 will run on a 486SX!
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