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In article <16rb6gINNt38@iraul1.ira.uka.de>, S_JUFFA@iravcl.ira.uka.de (|S| Norbert Juffa) writes:

| The cache is definitely the main source of the 486DLC's performance
| gain over the 80386. This can be easily deduced from the performance
| of Intel's RapidCAD chip which is basically a 486 without the cache
| and with a 386 pin out. While the RapidCAD offers roughly twice the
| floating point performance of the Intel 387DX, my benchmarks showed
| it to be at most 25% faster than the 80386. Typical performance gain
| for integer applications is more like 15% though. This definitely

  Whoa! Is this chip OEM only or available to real people. I have a app
running on old (1986) 386-16s with 287 math chips. If the rapidCAD chip
is a drop in I could probably get an order of magnitude boost in the FP
performance.

  Motherboard upgrade is not available for this application.

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