Subj : Re: Up and running!
To : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Blue White
Date : Wed Apr 12 2023 06:18 pm
-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Thom Miller <=-
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.
pF> I didn't know that! My motherboard was a cheap one with one of the
pF> surface-mount CPUs and no co-processor socket. I was doing a lot of
pF> coding back then, if I could have put a coprocessor on it it would have
pF> lasted a lot longer. --- SBBSecho 3.20-Win32
I don't remember if the CPU was surface or not, but the mo-board had a slot
for a coprocessor. I never installed one, though.
