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From: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 287 in a 386-33 system?
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Date: 26 Feb 91 16:10:51 GMT
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In article <1670@pdxgate.UUCP> mwizard@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Craig Nelson) writes:
>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?
>
>to my knowledge jamming a 287 in just won't work.  No Slot, wrong speed, get
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I suspect that this was a special design, but we have a 386 machine that
has a 287 in it. This is an early 386, so there may not have been any 387's
at that time.		-ted-

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