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From: mwizard@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Craig Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 287 in a 386-33 system?
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Date: 19 Feb 91 10:29:16 GMT
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indra@brahms.amd.com (Indra Singhal) writes:

>Do 386 machines have a socket that allow using a 287?
>For a 33 Mhz 386 machine, what speed 287 should be used?
>Thanks!

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>iNDRA | indra@amd.com or {ames apple uunet}!amd!indra

	Hate to say it, but you get the prize of forking over some rude cash
if you want a 387 for that machine.   80387DX Coprocessors run bucks.  And No,
to my knowledge jamming a 287 in just won't work.  No Slot, wrong speed, get
the picture ?

	Craigf (mwizard@eecs.ee.pdx.psu)