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Originally Posted by g__day
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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Seems like only yesterday, but, heavens above!, it was getting on 20 years ago I was buying 16 MHz 386s with 387s installed. Got one as a server with a whole 300 MByte hard disk - full height of course! It crashed within the first year.