[vorbis] Vorbis on Legacy hardware

[fungus]

Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> 
>>The 486SX was originally a yield management hack; a 486 DX with an FPU
> More like a sales management hack... 
> 

I think it was actually both.

> 
>>that failed testing was sold as a 486SX with FPU disabled.  A 486 with
> 
> ...they just disabled the FPU and sold it as a 486SX.  Nothing to do
> with failing FPUs afaik (the failing FPU was a pentium thing ;) )
> 

Yields were eventually high enough that they had
to start doing this.

> 487SX. it disabled the 486SX and took over all processing.
> 

That's the way I remember it. The "co"processor actually
became the main CPU.

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