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- From: schottd@ucs.orst.edu (Derek Schott)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Is there any merit to the 486SX?
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 15:15:06 GMT
- Organization: University Computing Services - OSU
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- Summary: who needs a math coprocessor?
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- > Obviously if you're buying a 486SX you don't anticipate needing a math
- >coprocessor, and if you had you'd be buying a 486DX.
- >sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
- >Project Vincent ICSS Resource Unit
- >SCO ODT, Arc/Info, Atlas GIS 2142 Agronomy Hall
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- So to answer my question, who needs a math coprocessor anyways?
- What programs really benefit from it, and how much? It sounds like
- one of those things that might benefit certain applications, but
- hardly be noticable to the average user.
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