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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SYS V R4 - When will it be released for Generic 386 boxes?
Message-ID: <1989Nov15.004210.4967@world.std.com>
Date: 15 Nov 89 00:42:10 GMT
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Organization: Software Tool & Die
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williams@cs.umass.edu writes:

>In article <1989Nov10.180048.24410@telly.on.ca>, evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes...
>>Everything for V.4 will be done in
>>386 code and will treat the 486 as just a fast 386.
>> 
>Huh?  I thought the 486 WAS just a fast 386 with builtin
>cache and fpu!  No new instructions, modes, etc.

At a minimum, the fpu supports a bunch of functions which the 80387
did not.

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com