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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: AMD rubbish????
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:26:10 GMT
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- In article <Bz9H1y.6oE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
- >ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng) writes:
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- >AMD is using actual Intel microcode in their 386 line. Nonetheless
- >I opted for the 33 MHz Intel CPU because I wanted a genuine Intel
- >math coprocessor, and they are only available up to 33 MHz. But
- >there's nothing wrong with AMD CPU chips.
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- Many motherboards allow the use of the Intel 387-33 and the AMD 386-40,
- running the 387 asynchronously.
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- I've heard is that non-Intel 387s can't run asynchronously - they will
- run at 40 MHz regardless of which way the jumper is set.
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