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From: chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen)
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Subject: Re: What's in the '586?
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Date: 17 May 91 15:16:48 GMT
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As much as I hate the marketing plot, the manufacture costs are not the same
with or without a FPU/MMU. It may cost exactly the same in the wafer fab.
However, Intel (or Moto for this matter) can save some cost in final testing
by by-passing the FPU test suite.