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From: prisoner@pawl.rpi.edu (Allen S. Firstenberg)
Subject: Re: The AMD 80C287 chip
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Date: 17 Aug 90 23:12:07 GMT
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bach@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Baskaran Subramaniam) writes:

>In article <547@mstr.hgc.edu> nmiller@mstr.hgc.edu (norman miller) writes:
>>In the latest PC Mag, AMD is advertising an 80C287 chip for
>>$99 with a money-back guarantee.
>>
>>Sounds good to me.  Does anyone have any cautionary words?

>Can I use this chip in a 80286/16 or 20 Mhz machine?

I don't speak for AMD (tho they did bribe me with a free chip) but I've 
had no problems with it so far on a 386 (yes... three eight six) at 20Mhz.
The literature says the chip is designed to run at any speed.

Answer to question 1:  No cautionary words, but I haven't exhaustively 
  tested it.
Answer to question 2:  Apparently so.

BCNU
Priz
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