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> I'm not bashing Intel, I own a Pentium myself, but don't you think that
> creating a market segment by selling crippled 486 chips with disabled
> math co
> processors and calling them 486SX's so they could sell non-crippled 486
> chips
> with an extra pin and call them a 487's was pretty darn close to lying
> to
> customers about what they were buying.
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No more so than when Moto and Apple sold crippled (buggy) 040 processors
w/o the math coprocessor, and called them 68LC040's (of course you had to
look really deep in the specs to find the LC part (or try to run a program
requiring an FPU. I remember the sx/dx diffs, It was fairly clear that
the sx had no FPU, which is why I would have gone for a DX, if I hadnt
gotten a Mac instead. (Now the proud owner of a Pmac 6500 crunching 1000+
kkeys/sec :)
Aaron
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