Subj : Re: Up and running!
To   : Thom Miller
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Apr 11 2023 03:39 pm

  Re: Re: Up and running!
  By: Thom Miller to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Apr 11 2023 03:21 pm

 TM> Nope. They made pin-compatible PGA chips in addition to the surface-mount
 TM> chips. I think they might be 'better known' for the surface mount chips,
 TM> because I think the market was kind of flooded with sort of 'all-in-one'
 TM> boards towards the end of the 386-era.

I didn't know that! My motherboard was a cheap one with one of the surface-mount CPUs and no co-processor socket. I was doing a lot of coding back then, if I could have put a coprocessor on it it would have lasted a lot longer.
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