From: mwood AT indyvax DOT iupui DOT edu (Mark H. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: 386Max & DPMI 1.0
Message-ID: <1996Nov1.124506.27065@indyvax.iupui.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 96 12:45:06 -0500
References: <19961027 DOT 224846 DOT 8183 DOT 1 DOT chambersb AT juno DOT com> <54vm6h$jjj AT news DOT service DOT uci DOT edu>
Lines: 25
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

In article <54vm6h$jjj AT news DOT service DOT uci DOT edu>, beppu AT rigel DOT oac DOT uci DOT edu (John Beppu) writes:
>>>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).

486DX = has FPU
486SX = no  FPU

386DX = 32-bit external data paths
386SX = 16-bit external data paths, 32-bit internal data paths
-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead Systems Programmer    +1 317 274 0749   [@disclaimer@]
Internet:  MWOOD AT INDYVAX DOT IUPUI DOT EDU       BITNET:  MWOOD AT INDYVAX
I am endeavoring to construct a mnemonic circuit using stone knives and
bearskins.				-- Spock