Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: 8087-2 needed in Zenith Z-1x8 PC compatibles Message-ID: <274@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 18:42:12 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.274 Posted: Mon Aug 19 18:42:12 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 20:48:54 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr Lines: 14 The new Zenith PC-compatibles (the Z-138, Z-148, and Z-158) offer a switch to allow them to be operated at 4.77 MHz and 8 MHz. If you intend to use an 8087 math chip with one of these computers, you will need to get an 8087-2, otherwise it may have problems at the higher speed. Note, by the way, that a Z-158 at 8 MHz will outrun an IBM PC AT for a number of jobs, especially those that are floating point intensive. (An 80287 in a PC-AT runs at just 4 MHz, making the AT no faster than a PC for floating-point-computation-bound tasks.) -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary