Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!njsmu!mccc!pjh From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: How much for a 487SX?!! Message-ID: <1991Apr25.203134.12907@mccc.edu> Date: 25 Apr 91 20:31:34 GMT References: <13342.28130474@ecs.umass.edu> Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One Lines: 20 In article mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: =Intel is targeting the 486SX at people who would otherwise buy a 386 =machine. A lot of people have no use for the built-in FPU in the =486DX, since their applications do little or no floating-point math. =(Remember that the FPU only helps out with floating-point stuff or =complex math like trigonometry; the CPU still does integer math =itself.) A 486SX will be MUCH faster than a 386DX running at the same =clock speed, since the 486SX has an instruction prefetch cache, and a =lot of the instructions have been speeded up (in terms of clock =cycles). I know that if I had the choice between a 386DX and a 486SX =machine, I'd take the 486SX machine any day. Does this SX have a 32 or 16 bit data bus? Pete -- Prof. Peter J. Holsberg Mercer County Community College Voice: 609-586-4800 Engineering Technology, Computers and Math UUCP:...!princeton!mccc!pjh 1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690 Internet: pjh@mccc.edu Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/20-21/91