what can i do with a 486?

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Gray, David W" <David.W.Gray at nielsen.com> writes:
> Is that a 48*6* or a 48*7*??? You MUST HAVE a floating point
> emulator if you don't have a '487 (also known as a '486 overdrive),
> or no boot.

The 487 was not a "486 overdrive", but an add-on FP unit for the 486SX
(which shipped with the built-in FP unit physically disabled).  The
"overdrive" was Pentium chip that fit in a 486 socket, and later also
early Pentium sockets (so you could fit a 120 MHz Pentium Overdrive on
a 60 MHz board, similar to the 486 DX2 which ran at twice the speed of
the motherboard).

DES
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