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Re:Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can al... by mjg59 on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @12:24PM (#5820388)
No, that was the 486SX/DX. No 386s had built-in FPUs - the 386SX was a DX with a 16-bit data bus and a 24-bit address bus.
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Re:Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can al... by timthorn on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @12:48PM (#5820560)
Bitrot in my brain... :)
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Re:Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can al... by sageikosa on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @08:31PM (#5822996)
I was certain, but I still looked it up ;-). There's nothing like making a mistake on Hacker News to show one how to eat humble pie.
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