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Subject: Re: Serious math-coprocessor on the 80386 (80387 ?)
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Date: Fri, 8-May-87 02:38:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  8 02:38:19 1987
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in article <3477@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mic@lapis.berkeley.edu (Michel Bruneau) says:
> 
> It is a well know fact that the 8086-8087 combinaison beats easily the
> 80286-80287 setup in term of numbercrunching speed (at least for the
> Fortran programs I use!) .. Now that the 80386 is out, is there a
> math-coprocessor that will come with it , and can we expect real output
> from it (i.e. speeding up 20 times or more, like the 8087 did with the 8086)?


	As for myself... I would first worry about getting a "real" 
processor.  Wouldn't you agree that this is only reasonable ?