Can I use 8087 on 80286 motherboard?

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From: Hamish Moffatt
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 09:45

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In a msg on <Aug 01 01:23>, CHU JEFFREY (chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU ) writes:

 CJ> cost).  It is suppose do 3x the performance compare to the 
 CJ> built-in co-processor.  All 486DX (exception of a few) have 

I think I read somewhere that the Weitek is for simple mathematics, while the
Intel is for floating point. eg they both have seperate purposes. Can anyone
confirm this?


Hamish

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