Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!apple!netcom!amdcad!brahms!phil
From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: The AMD 80C287 chip
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.041740.24371@amd.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 04:17:40 GMT
References: <547@mstr.hgc.edu> <6844@vax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA
Lines: 16

In article <6844@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> bach@vax1.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.
|Can I use this chip in a 80286/16 or 20 Mhz machine?

I don't speak for AMD but the 287 gets a clock that is 2/3 of the
286. A 16 Mhz 286 would be a little over the 287's 10 Mhz limit
(but you could probably get away with it), a 20 Mhz 286 would
probably not be a good idea until the 287 comes out in a faster
speed.


--
Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com		{uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
Were the Americans of Japanese descent interned during WWII hostages?