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From: jwi@cbnewsj.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 80C287 from AMD??
Summary: Seems to work fine
Message-ID: <1991May1.144039.24123@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 1 May 91 14:40:39 GMT
References: <611@edpmgt.UUCP>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <611@edpmgt.UUCP> gpitcher@edpmgt.UUCP (Glenn Pitcher) writes:
> I was wondering if anyone out there has taken ADM up on their offer of a 
> 80C287 10Mhz co-processor for $99??  I decided to go ahead and order it just to
> check it out but I'm curious to talk to others who have experience with it.

Seems to work fine. Runs diagnostics okay. Runs autocad 9.0 okay. I have a
20Mhz DELL machine.  When I asked AMD about it, they said that the clock
speed gets divided by 2 on 20 MHz machines instead of by 2/3 as on slower
machines.

Jim Winer -- jwi@mtfme.att.com -- Opinions not represent employer.
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