27 Oct
2001
27 Oct
'01
1:42 p.m.
At 12:29 AM 10/28/01 +0100, Iggy wrote:
No; they both have IEEE operands. I believe that you could use
287 parts with 386-SX cpus, but not with normal 386's.
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org
Richard Erlacher skrev:
>I saw a '386 motherboard with VLB slots on Tuesday, but didn't bite. It
took
me WAY too long
to give away all my old '386's, and the only one I kept was
one that uses a '287 coprocessor, just for interest.
287? I didn't think that would be possible. Don't they use different length
arithmetic, just to name one difference?