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From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The 68050 - end of the 680x0? (was Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.143057.15951@Sugar.NeoSoft.com>
Date: 23 Jun 91 14:30:57 GMT
References: <1135@stewart.UUCP> <1147@stewart.UUCP> <1991Jun22.065702.24890@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Jun22.065702.24890@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
> In the meantime, you could also
> buy a 487SX, which just happens to be yet another real 486, this time with
> everything BUT the FPU disabled.

No, it's even worse. The 487SX is a 486 with an extra pin that disables the
486SX and replaces it. The 486SX is just a dongle when you have the 487SX
installed.

Yes, we dislike Apple for using legal shenanigans to maximise profits at
the expense of the entire software industry... but what IBM and Intel do
makes them almost look like the good guys.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"