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From: ndoduc@framentec.fr (Nhuan Doduc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: two questions on w3167 and formatting diskettes
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Date: 12 Dec 90 18:53:52 GMT
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In <90345.135657OBL8807@TREARN.BITNET> OBL8807@TREARN.BITNET (Cem Ozudemirturk) writes:
>1)could anyone tell me the differences between 80387 and w3167 math
>co-processors? I saw the fortran benchmark results  for two 33mhz 386 machines,
....
>in software? Can we use both working with  ms-dos and programs like
>autocad? And can we  say both compatible with each other?  What are
>appoximate prices for them?
	>the 2 coproc. ARE NOT COMPATIBLE, AutoCad for example has a
	>version for each. Price depends on your bargainning. But
	>it might be that you want to consider Cyrix chips that are
	>TOTALLY compatible with i387
>2)here, some peoples use 720k 3,5inch diskettes as 1.4 mb diskettes.
>They punch them to make hi-density and then format them. As i can see
>diskettes works really well.
	>this raises another problem (eg. should we or shouldn't we ...)
	>myself, I do avoid this, unless ...
--nh
Nhuan DODUC, 
Framentec-Cognitech, Paris, France, ndoduc@framentec.fr or ndoduc@cognitech.fr,
Association Francaise des Utilisateurs d'Unix, France, doduc@afuu.fr