Path: utzoo!mnetor!george
From: george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 80486
Message-ID: <4797@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 88 15:25:57 GMT
References: <15374@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <213400015@s.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <213400015@s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>I went to a talk by Intel about it, and they were cagey about actual dates.
>From what they said, the '486 does not really have any new features. Mostly,
>it's faster (a significant number of long instructions execute in fewer
>cycles), and there will be no '487 - it's built in now. (I.e., the FPU
>is onboard, which makes it a lot faster).

Is it a full function FPU (i.e. with trig and transcendentals) or is does
it just support the four basic operations?

What floating point format does it support?

Does this mean the 486 has no coprocessor interface?
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