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From: pschwart@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Paul Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Question about different 386's ...
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.144908.26933@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 91 14:47:02 GMT
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In article <27fb0c94-b35.1comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> akcs.gregc@vpnet.chi.il.us (*Greg*) writes:
>Takis Skagos scribbled:
>>Item: 2869 by coop4y44 at bwdla28.bnr.ca
>>  Subj: Question about different 386's ...
>>  Date: Thu Apr 04 1991 03:02 
>>  Hi.  I've a question about the different chips in the 80386 family
>>tree.  I've heard the 386 refered to as 386SX, 386DX, and something
>>else that I cannot remember.  Does anybody out there know?
>Hi too.. The 80386 is very simple.  386SX is a 16 bit crunching chip.  It
>processes 16 bits at a time while the 386DX is a 32 bit crunching chip. 

    Wrong, wrong, wrong.  Data is transfered to and from the SX in 16-bit 
chunks, but its internal processing is equivalent to the DX, 32-bits.


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