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From: acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook)
Subject: Re: 80C287 from AMD??
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Date: Thu, 2 May 91 13:27:12 GMT
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Hi

I bought the AMD 80C287 for my 12Mhz 286 box about 2 months ago.  I have had no
problems with it.  It seems to be comparable in speed to the Intel 287, according
to some simple code I wrote, and ran on both.

But how 'bout the price ?!  Kudos to AMD to lowering the cost of a processor.
If we could only get Intel to lower their prices too (for example, cheap 486DX's
would be nice . . . ).

Keep it up AMD - Let's see some market crashing low prices on your new 40Mhz
386 chips !  How about $99 387-40, 33, 25 's ?

Sorry, just a little fantasy of mine.  You know, power for the poor, etc . . .

Andy
acook@athena.mit.edu