From: Alan Charlton (agc@weasel.demon.co.uk)
Date: 02/17/93


From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
Subject: Re: FPU 387, Recommendations wanted
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 23:18:43 +0000

In article <Feb16.100056.25666@roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de> kmw@roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Karsten M. Winkovics) writes:

   What 387/compatibles are recommended for use with a 33/40 Mhz 386?
   Any info about speed in relation to the orig. 387 and compatibility would be
   interesting.

Well, I installed an IIT '387 last week in my sx25 and whereas before
I couldn't use any decent X apps, they really fly along now. Various
DOS benchmarks put the IIT at between 10-20 times faster than a
"standard" AT/co-pro.

Cheers,

Alan