Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:31:52 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: *** next draft - press release *** |
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On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >therefore broken. If the intention was to remove such support > >then the FPU emulation should be removed because '486 processors > >have internal FPUs > > Not always. The 486SX doesn't. >
Correct. A 486SX doesn't have much in common with a '486. I should have remembered that these nickel chips are still sprinkled around here and there pretending to be the real thing.
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