Alain <aze### [at] qwertyorg> wrote:

> The 486 SX also had half sized data bus, thus ths SX designation.
> Essentialy, they made it so that it could be mounted on older, and much
> cheaper, motherboards made for the 386SX.

Actually, you're thinking of the Pentium Overdrive, which did have a half-sized
bus (32-bits instead of 64-bits for normal Pentiums) and allowed it to be a
plug-in replacement for the 486 DX. The 486 SX had a 32-bit data bus, just like
the 486 DX.

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