From: Mark G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > This looks a lot like an ix86.  What generation, I don't know.  Lst
> > time I
> remember explicitly knowing that my box had a >math coprocessor, I was
> running a 386.  I believe the Pentium chip pulled the functionality
> back into the CPU. >
> 
> that must be exactly it. the x486 was same thing. You needed an extra
> co-processor math chip. Some P machines still have room for them. It
> woudl be hard to find which exact OP is trying to use that.

If memory serves me right there were two branches of 486.
486DX which did have the coprocessor and 486SX which did not.

I think the computer should give you some CPU related info when it 
boots up.

Jenda
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