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Old 30-05-2007, 01:34 AM
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Dennis,

The 486 has an in-buit maths coprocessor (and you could I believe get an external addition - but I've never heard of anyone doing so). The 386 relied totally on an external 387 maths co-processor if you wanted heavy duty floating point maths - like 3d processing mostly requires.
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