Re: arches and etch
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On 11/03/06 10:55, Tim Cutts wrote:
> On 31 Oct 2006, at 3:07 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
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>>> On 10/30/06 14:43, Bill Allombert wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:
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> Er, none of the 386 chips had an FPU. IIRC, the difference between a
> 386DX and a 386SX was the interface to the rest of the machine; the
> 386SX has interface circuitry similar to a 286, so that hardware
> manufacturers didn't need to design a completely new board for a 386
> machine, but could adapt their existing (cheap) 286 designs instead.
>
> The 486 was the first CPU in the X86 family to have an integral FPU.
Damn, how could I have forgotten that? I was soooo proud of my 484DX33.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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