From: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil) Subject: Re: 486SXs as Unix Iron? Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 18:40:03 GMT
In article <1992Oct30.194546.11090@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>(That's right; the 487SX is
>a 486DX chip hacked to disable the CPU and cache....)
No, it's much worse than that. When you plug in a 487SX, the 486SX chip is
_disabled_ and all CPU functions shift over to the 'coprocessor'. The 487SX
is really a 486DX.
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