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Re: Windows 32-bit

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From Daniel65 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
Newsgroups comp.os.ms-windows.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-xp, alt.windows7.general, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Subject Re: Windows 32-bit
Date Sun, 31 Dec 2023 23:17:19 +1100
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J. P. Gilliver wrote on 31/12/23 7:27 am:
> In message <3fj0pi1he28cfgbul4lbmu4jua526btugq@4ax.com> at Sat, 30
> Dec 2023 12:10:57, Tim Slattery <TimSlattery@utexas.edu> writes
>> "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> For 386 and 486, the confusingly changed what "SX" and "DX"
>>> meant; on one (I forget which), SX meant it _didn't_ have a
>>> floating-point maths co-processor on board, DX meant it did. On
>>> the other, SX meant it had a half-width (so 16?) bus outside the
>>> chip (so requiring two fetches to
>> 
>> The 486 was the first Intel chip to have the numeric coprocessor 
>> onboard. Intel wanted to prese4ve the "SX" price point, so they 
>> produced a 486SX chip which was identical to the DX except that
>> the numeric coprocessor was disabled! Machines sold with this chip
>> had an empty socket where you could plug in a 486DX chip to get a
>> coproc. So once you did that, you could unplug the SX chip and use
>> it elsewhere, right? WRONG!!! It was set up so that the DX in those
>> machines wouldn't work unless the SX was plugged in, doing
>> nothing.
>> 
> Did anyone ever manage to "crack" the 486SX or the 487 to enable the
>  disabled part, or make it work without the other?

"487"?? All DuckDuckGo shows seems to concern a Californian Penal Code
clause 487!! ;-P
-- 
Daniel

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