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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel Inboard 386 for XT
Keywords: Intel Inboard 386 XT
Message-ID: <1479@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jul 89 22:32:14 GMT
References: <1590@bute.tcom.stc.co.uk>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <1590@bute.tcom.stc.co.uk> ianking@tcom.stc.co.uk (Ian King) writes:
<Intel Inboard-386 accelerator board for XT.
<------------------------------------------
<There is a company in the UK selling these reasonably cheaply ie approx
<500 pounds sterling (advertised in the Personal Computer World magazine).
<Ive got an old XT-clone collecting dust and I wondered about making it useful
<by upgrading it with one of these boards.

Someone at work snuck one of these thru purchasing. It speeds up the machine,
but you are still stuck with the XT's slow i/o. I'd recommend buying a
replacement motherboard instead. It'll cost about the same but give
a *lo* better performance (even if it's only a 286 board!)

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