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From: rob@conexch.UUCP (Robert Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: '386's SX's and DX's
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Date: 24 Jul 90 16:15:42 GMT
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In article <31122@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v081nhdb@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>If you are going to get a '386, get a REAL '386! Namely a DX. The SX's are
>actually 16 bit microprocessors, or so a friend of mine in the Computer 
>business tells me. 
This is like saying:  "Do as I say, as I am an authority on this matter...or
so a friend in the computer business tells me."  Actually, the SX is a 32-bit
uP, with a 16-bit address and data bus.  Internally, it is a full 32-bit uP.
In fact, the SX, and DX are indistinguishable from the software's point of
view.  Even with Intel's help, I haven't figured up a software method to tell
the two CPU's apart.

>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.

Did you consider lap-top computers?  A DX is a power-hog compared to an SX.
If you were to buy a 386 laptop,it certainly would have an SX in it.


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