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From: mjs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What's in the '586?
Message-ID: <8840035@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 16 May 91 22:58:38 GMT
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>BTW, don't give me this crap about it benefitting the end-user.  It will cost
>Intel EXACTLY the same amount to manufacture the chip, whether or not the
>consumer uses the FPU.  

This is not an accurate assessment.  The manufacturing cost may be the same,
but the cost of on-line support is lower if you don't support the FPU.

Hopefully, a Motorola "spokesman" will shortly produce an equally amusing
summary of the 68050.