From:	beppu AT rigel DOT oac DOT uci DOT edu (John Beppu)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: 386Max & DPMI 1.0
Date:	27 Oct 1996 12:56:49 GMT
Organization:	University of California, Irvine
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>>machine:
>>  am386DX 40, 8MB RAM, CD-ROM 4x, modem on COM2, 1MB 8900CL/D gfx 
>>  Quantum/HP HDD 270MB + WD HDD 400MB, local bus hybrid motherboard 
>>386 or 486), no FPU, 128 cache.

>umm........
>how can you have a DX machine without an FPU?
>Isn't that the definition of DX?


  (I may be wrong, but)
  I think that the letters "DX" implied that an FPU was on
  a 486, but for 386s the "DX" was ?(something else).



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