> I do have a 387/40, in one of my SurvPC. I'm afraid I won't part with
> it at this time, but I do know that they were produced, in small
> numbers.
Meanie! ;)
Is it made by AMD? All the 386/40s that Ive seen were. I dont think
that Intel made any.
> I have used floating-point emulators, and it does really slow things
> down.
I dont have anything to compare with, but Im fairly sure they do.
I have Perl for DOS here that needs one and it takes an age to
load.
> I would suggest that you purchase one of those 387/33s and give
> it a try. It won't hurt your system - might make it not function
> properly, but it won't hurt anything, so long as you get it the right
> way 'round in the socket. (Which, IIRC, was keyed, so that'll be
> harder to get wrong, too.)
Ill certainly keep my eyes open on the secondhand market. My SurvPC
philosophy is not to buy anything new. BTW theres two different
kinds of co-processor, just as theres two different processors.
Theres the 387SX and the 387DX. Mines an SX.
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Bye now,
Ian.
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