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From: grohol@novavax.UUCP (John Grohol)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Asking questions.
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Date: 18 May 91 16:00:42 GMT
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G22QC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:

>I am not kidding here.  Can anybody tell me what differences between
>an 80386 and an 80486 machine are?  I get confused it is because
>both of them are 32-bit machines.  How can one is faster than the
>other?  

>Eddie Wu

A 386 doesn't have a built in math coprocessor. The 486 does, hence
the major differences in speed.

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