Can I use 8087 on 80286 motherboard?

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From: Hamish Moffatt
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:16

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In a msg on <Aug 07 00:14>, Iskandar Taib (ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu )
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>>  The Math Co. for the 487 is *built in*.....

 IT> I'm surprised none of our net.nit.pickers haven't seen this yet. 
 IT> I think he meant a *486* has a math co-processor built in  

Well, the 487 would have a coprocessor builtin I'm sure, if there was one :-)

Hamish

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