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From: johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is the 386SX pin compatable with the 286?
Summary: No.
Keywords: 80386SX
Message-ID: <4182@ima.ima.isc.com>
Date: 19 Jul 89 03:04:53 GMT
References: <20851@hodge.UUCP>
Reply-To: johnl@ima (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Inc.
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In article <20851@hodge.UUCP> jdm@hodge.UUCP (jdm) writes:
>
>	I heard this crazy thing that the 80386SX is completely
>	pin compatable with the 80286 then therefore it should
>	be possible to replace the 286 on any motherboard with
>	a 386SX.  ...

Somebody has been feeding you a line.  The 386sx and the 286 are not pin
compatible by a long shot.  When the 386sx first came out, lots of us expected
to see little daughterboards with an sx and glue logic to replace a 286 chip,
but they never caught on.
-- 
John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869
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