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From: a1499@mindlink.UUCP (Andrew Harmsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Whis is fastest 386/33 or 486/25 ?/inc
Message-ID: <2418@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 90 20:00:17 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> laughner@news.nd.edu writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <217@news.nd.edu>
> Posted: 12 Jul 90 14:37:06 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Univ. of Notre Dame
> Person: Tom laughner
> There would be no difference in speed between a 386 with a math
> coprocessor and a 486.  The 486 chip is a 386 + the math coprocessor in
> one.  Intel considers the 486 as a part of the 386 family.

I'm afraid that is not correct, essentially it is true, but a number of
optimizations were carried out in combining the two chips.  I don't know the
details, what it affects, or by how much, but there are differences.