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From: kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need suggestions for PC system for Engineering student.
Message-ID: <301@pallas.athenanet.com>
Date: 4 Mar 90 19:14:24 GMT
References: <25ed0d19@ralf>
Reply-To: kabra437@pallas.UUCP (Ken Abrams)
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In article <25ed0d19@ralf> Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
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>Not anymore.  Currently-produced 386 chips no longer support the 287.

Excuse me?  And when, pray tell, did Intel change the specs. for the
386?  Not that I am any expert on the subject, (far from it) but I
thought that use of the 287 was accomplished via the supporting chip
set and not necessarily due to anything in the design of the 386 itself.

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