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From: gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: PC AT 80287 no faster than 8087
Message-ID: <1666@sun.uucp>
Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 18:09:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  6 18:09:50 1984
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Indeed, the 8087 and 80287 are the same inside.  There's just a
different bus interface.

Somehow changing the bus interface took them about as long as it took
to produce 80286's.  They had working samples in April '83 but at the
time various people were figuring out how to hook them up to 68000's.
For some mysterious reason they decided to withdraw the part until the
80286 was ready.

Here's to open systems.