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Article #873Re: == Which processor to buy - 386 or 486? ===
From: Stefan Sinnige
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:23
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:23
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rsilvers@nynexst.com (Robert Silvers) writes: >In article <1992Oct16.064904.5202@tamsun.tamu.edu> goodlett@ee.tamu.edu (Michael Goodlett) writes: >It has a built in one, but external ones are faster. Not important >to me. If you are doing 3D graphics, good floating point probably >matters. You should look at benchmarks to find the fastest floating >point. > --Rob. I would say that the on-chip co-processor supplied with the 486 is faster, since it doesn't have to do expensive off-chip communications between 2 processors. Stefan -- ---------------------- = Stefan Sinnige "To be or not to be a weirdo, = sinnige@fwi.uva.nl that is not the question." ----------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!sinnige From: sinnige@fwi.uva.nl (Stefan Sinnige) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: == Which processor to buy - 386 or 486? === Message-ID: <1992Oct16.152321.10903@fwi.uva.nl> Date: 16 Oct 92 15:23:21 GMT References: <1992Oct16.064904.5202@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Oct16.134302.653@nynexst.com> Sender: news@fwi.uva.nl Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: wendy.fwi.uva.nl