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My first "my own purchase" PC was a 486sx. So as a _line_, "the 486" wasn't guaranteed to have an FPU.
by postmodest 3y ago
My first "my own purchase" PC was a 486sx. So as a _line_, "the 486" wasn't guaranteed to have an FPU.
- justin66 3y agoI guess that's true. I never really thought of them as the same thing. Looking over some old info about the "i486" (I swear I had completely forgotten about the i) was a treat. It's only barely believable but I think the sheer annoyingness of Intel's marketing and market segmentation might have actually peaked three decades ago.