From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) Subject: Re: 486SXs as Unix Iron? Date: 3 Nov 1992 02:22:30 -0600
In <dpn2.37.720729603@po.CWRU.Edu> dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil) writes:
>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.
Okay, the question now is, can you buy a 486DX motherboard, sans 486dx
and plug a 487sx in instead of a 486dx? The 476sx's that I've seen
are cheaper than the 486dx's that I've seen.
++Brett;