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Offline mikeymike

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Quake 1 claimed it did but didn't.  I played it on a 486/25SX*.  A bit on the jerky side, but it worked :-)

* - the 486 SX range were the cheaparse CPUs without an FPU. The DX range had a built in FPU.

FPUs are very nice.  Buy accelerators with them if you can.  I've seen a few apps I've installed specify 040/FPU as an option.