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From: burkey@duncan.cs.utk.edu (Michael Burkey)
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Subject: Re: How much for a 487SX?!!
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Date: 6 May 91 17:45:39 GMT
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I hope that some of the motherboard manufacturers out there may read this.

-- MAKE NO PROVISIONS ON YOUR BOARDS for the STUPID 487SX!!!
-- design your boards to take either 486DX (25/33) or 486SX chips

-- if the board is not designed for a brain-damaged 487SX, all you have to
   do is swap in a real 486 when you want the co-processor (for $200 cheaper)
   and you could easily build boards to be compatible at 20 or 25 Mhz.

-- since the 486SX would be disabled anyway there is no reason a REAL 486 could
   not be installed in another socket!!!

Mike Burkey
(KILL INTEL!!!!)
(C&T, AMD, & NexGen shall TRIUMPH!)

(especially considering that C&T and AMD are both working on 486 clones)