> On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Philip Blundell wrote:
>
> > >therefore broken. If the intention was to remove such support
> > >then the FPU emulation should be removed because '486 processors
> > >have internal FPUs
> >
> > Not always. The 486SX doesn't.
> >
>
> Correct. A 486SX doesn't have much in common with a '486. I should
> have remembered that these nickel chips are still sprinkled around
> here and there pretending to be the real thing.
Actually, at least some of the 486SX cpus had the same dies as the DX cpus
and just had a single line not connected externally.
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