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From: a516@mindlink.UUCP (Jordan Melville)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Whis is fastest 386/33 or 486/25 ?
Message-ID: <2447@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 90 03:51:45 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <217@news.nd.edu>, laughner@news.nd.edu (Tom laughner) wrote:
> 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.


Although this may be true, you forget that the 486 has 8k of cache right on the
processor, plus the chip IS more efficient that a 386+387 chip. The times
should be close, but measurably different.

Jordan.

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