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Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 09:44:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 14 09:44:25 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Nov-84 02:52:26 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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Intel is delivering the 8087-2 which is the 8 mh version of the usual
8087 4.77 mh chip.  Is the new FP chip alluded to in a
previous article the same speedup of the 80287 chip?

The 8087-2's can fit in the ATT PC 6300 and the Compaq Deskpro.  I haven't
tried an 8087-2, but the speedup is probably considerable, and could
provide good competition to the (current) AT for floating point calculations.

Marc S. Meketon
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