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From: jdu4855@cs.rit.edu (Unrue Jack D)
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Subject: Re: '386's SX's and DX's
Summary: 16 bits??
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Date: 21 Jul 90 20:14:06 GMT
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In article <31122@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v081nhdb@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>[...] The SX's are
>actually 16 bit microprocessors, or so a friend of mine in the Computer 
>business tells me. If you are going to spend the money on a '386 (either a
>new motherboard, or a whole new system), you might as well get a good one
>that has a 32 bit Microprocessor.
>

Your friend in the computer business probably intended to say that 386SX's 
communicate to the outside world in 16 bits, but function internally as a
full 32 bit processor.  The 32 bit machine instructions you use on a DX will
also be fine on an SX.