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Re: Clearing up acronyms
« on: April 26, 2006, 01:27:16 PM »
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Oliver wrote:
For example, AMD Athlons have the FPU instructions built in, while Durons do not.


:-o Durons most certainly do! The last x86 processor that didn't have a built-in FPU was the 80486SX circa 1989!

The difference between Athlon and Duron was cache size.

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