Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Need suggestions for PC system for Engineering student. Message-ID: <25ed0d19@ralf> Date: 1 Mar 90 10:52:57 GMT Sender: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: <25ec1dae.3a35@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> In article <25ec1dae.3a35@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) wrote: }One point that can save a lot of money is that some 386 motherboards (such as }my X'Golden Baby 386) have TWO math coprocessor slots, one for a low-end }80287-8Mhz, and the other for a high-end 80387. In your case, as mine, a Not anymore. Currently-produced 386 chips no longer support the 287. -- UUCP: {ucbvax,harvard}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=- 412-268-3053 (school) -=- FAX: ask ARPA: ralf@cs.cmu.edu BIT: ralf%cs.cmu.edu@CMUCCVMA FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/46 "How to Prove It" by Dana Angluin Disclaimer? I claimed something? 14. proof by importance: A large body of useful consequences all follow from the proposition in question.