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From: daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How much for a 487SX?!!
Message-ID: <13342.28130474@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 91 15:42:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: ecs.13342.28130474
References: <1991Apr22.155803.8093@tandem.com>
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In article <1991Apr22.155803.8093@tandem.com>, ernest@pegasus.dsg.tandem.com (Ernest Hua) writes:
> In today's Wall Street Journal (B6 col 3)...  (is this a *@#!! misprint?)
> 
>     ... the 486DX [sells for] $581 and up ...
> 
>     ... the 486SX is $258 apiece ... Intel has disabled ... the floating point
>     unit ...
> 
>     ... the 487SX ... will list for $799 ...
> 
>  <Stuff deleted>
> 
>     $258 or $1057 for the CPU
> 
> depending upon your tastes.  Who would be stupid enough to do the more complex
> design?!!!

I saw an add already in the latest either PC Mag or Byte for a 486 SX system 
from ?ALR? (I can't remember for sure and can't find the ad now)

I thought it was some kind of April fool's joke (April issue).  My question is
Who would buy a White Elephant like a 486SX?  The margin between 486's and
386's is disappearing rapidly as it is, and someone would have to be brain dead
to pay $200 more for a "487 SX" coprocessor than the actual 486 costs,
including the coprocessor.

-Bryon
daly@ecs.umass.edu