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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: AMD386-DX
Message-ID: <1032@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 91 21:42:41 GMT
References: <1991Apr2.022516.26153@news.iastate.edu> <68305@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
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jones@acsu.buffalo.edu (terry a jones) writes:
>
>The only problem I see with the elevated clock rate 386 is the fact
>that some of us need the FPU.  I don't see any 40Mhz 80387 parts as yet, and
>I'd expect costs there to also be out of sight.
>

In the latest PC-Week, practically every non-Intel manufacturer of numeric
coprocessors has a full-page advertisement for their new 40MHz 387.  Ain't
this industry great?

>
>	Terry
>
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