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From: rcollins@altos86.Altos.COM (Robert Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How much for a 487SX?!!
Message-ID: <297@altos86.Altos.COM>
Date: 7 May 91 16:22:05 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.155803.8093@tandem.com> <1991Apr27.194311.15636@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <280@altos86.Altos.COM> <-WB+FNC@jwt.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcollins@altos86.UUCP (Robert Collins)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <-WB+FNC@jwt.UUCP> john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
>In article <280@altos86.Altos.COM> rcollins@altos86.UUCP (Robert Collins) writes:
>>The '487SX is actually a '486DX with a few pins switched position.
>
>Does this mean someone could make a simple adapter to allow using a DX
>in place of an 487?

YES!  And that is exactly how we have our ICE-486 (In Circuit Emulator) 
attached to the SX socket.


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