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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 486 clone vs. Amiga 3000
Message-ID: <1110@redford.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 91 17:11:09 GMT
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In article <11260@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600dmx@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Richard A. Boyd) writes:
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>Where can you get a 486 for $3000?  All the prices I
>have seen start at $3600 (and that is for a bare
>bones model - small capacity HD, VGA, no math
                                       ^^^^^^^
>co,etc).
 ^^

No math co?  The 486 has a math co built in.  Since it is integrated on
the chip, the bus path for the CPU to FPU is much smaller, therefore it
can be faster.  

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