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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
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Date: 23 Jul 90 19:06:35 GMT
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In article <1990Jul22.234030.25727@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
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>But isn't the 386sx restricted in the amount of memory it can address? If
>that's the case, then would a 386sx be able to run OS/2 ver 2.0 ? I guess
>I'm wondering if the SX includes ALL the 32 bit machine instructions of a
>DX? Furthermore, what is the size of the data path between a 386SX and a
>387SX?
>

Yeah, I think you and I are saying the same thing.  SX's use a 16 bit bus, and
OS/2 ver 2.0 inhabits a 32 bit address space, so the two don't go together.  I
think that's as far as I'll go, because I'm not sure about the data path 
between the 386SX and 387SX.


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