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Article #43395Re: 387 push ok?
From: Wm E. Davidsen Jr
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 1990 04:25
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 1990 04:25
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In article <16675@oregon.uoregon.edu> KUO@oregon.uoregon.edu (Shijong Kuo) writes:
| Given all this, why should I bother to puchase a 25 Mhz 387 to work
| on my 25Mhz 386 MB. A 20 Mhz 387 is perfectly within the specifications
| published by Intel, unlike the 25Mhz push of 20Mhz 386 cpu. So
| reliability does not appear to be an issue, it seems to me.
If you mean that running the 387 at 20MHz with a 386 at 25 is in spec,
that's true. But it doesn't mean that you can run a 20MHz part at 25MHz
and be within spec. It will probably work that way, but in spec it's not.
--
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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