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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Why buy a DX over an SX?
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.160439.17824@mccc.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 16:04:39 GMT
References: <14534@encore.Encore.COM>
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In article <14534@encore.Encore.COM> elliot@encore.com writes:
=Ok, so we have beaten to death the differences between a 386SX and a 386DX.
=What I would like to know is what to the big attraction of a DX which seems
=to cost $200 more (without cache).  What does the 32-bit interface buy you?
=Certainly not CPU performance.  I did some checking and got these SI (5.0)
=numbers:

Using SI to evaluate the performance of a computer is like using gas
mileage to evaluate the performance of a car!

Pete
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