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From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is the 386SX pin compatable with the 286?
Keywords: 80386SX
Message-ID: <282@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>
Date: 20 Jul 89 12:31:21 GMT
References: <20851@hodge.UUCP> <4182@ima.ima.isc.com>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, NISD, Great Valley Laboratory
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In article <4182@ima.ima.isc.com> johnl@ima (John R. Levine) writes:
* 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
* 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.
But they may be catching on, now.  At least a couple different versions
_are_ currently available.  See the last issue of "PC" magazine (maybe it
was "Byte", I'm not quite sure).
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regardz,
Ken