DOS Games Discussion

I am here to brag about my FPU. FPUs are basically old processors that have architecture that makes them different from a regular (or newer) CPU. Quake will only run on an FPU, and i have one, and it runs at an amazing 200mhz!!!!

Every amd/ti/intel chip after the 386 had a FPU built in. Nexgen processors did not.

JMS wrote:A few 486SX chips had no FPU built in (some 486SX chips had the built in FPU but it was disabled! )

Yes, I should have mentioned the SX chip. That particular style was sold when the 486 was first produced and died out by the time the dx/2 were popular.

I think the 486SX without the FPU were the tiny ones that were soldered on to the motherboard and the 486SX with the dead FPU was the big loose ZIF one that were the same size as 486DX chips of the same clock speed. Am I right?

Anonymous wrote:I think the 486SX without the FPU were the tiny ones that were soldered on to the motherboard and the 486SX with the dead FPU was the big loose ZIF one that were the same size as 486DX chips of the same clock speed. Am I right?

Yes, that's correct. I have an old Tandy Desktop with a 486SX on-board chip. Right next to it, it has a Socket 3 OverDrive Socket, so I put a DX2-66 chip in it.

Vizzue is A Smacktard

yes, well, i guess i lose. you guys are too nerdy, even for ME! Looks like dosgames brought in the big guns on me...