-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/06 10:55, Tim Cutts wrote: > On 31 Oct 2006, at 3:07 am, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> On 10/30/06 14:43, Bill Allombert wrote: >>>> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: >>> [snip] [snip] > 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. - -- 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFS3cmS9HxQb37XmcRAjPoAJ9tlCMWC0uP+adCju6tlZ0LcKn1XgCfRb0L zhCcGUPQwBX+32NxtE/KJug= =9SUc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]