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There were rumours that the DX and SX chips were exactly the same: Intel zapped the FPU on the SX to disable it. Apparently it cost more to make, but sold for
by RachelF 3y ago
There were rumours that the DX and SX chips were exactly the same:
Intel zapped the FPU on the SX to disable it. Apparently it cost more to make, but sold for less.
- chasil 3y agoThe (80-bit) floating point in historic Intel processors is deprecated, FYI. After the exchange of MMX and 3d-NOW, it was AMD that adopted Intel SSE into amd64. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions