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From: burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 80386 memory expansion board needed
Keywords: 16 bit memory on 386 bus question
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Date: 7 Aug 89 21:30:36 GMT
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Organization: Unisys Network Computing Group, San Jose
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In article <35950@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
>I have a Northgate 386-16 machine with 4Mb of memory, which is
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which had myriads of AT expansion boards but I'm not too keen on
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>Please email replies to madd@std.com or uunet!skuld!madd.
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>Thank you,
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>jim frost
>software tool & die
>madd@std.com

A somewhat related question is whether or not you can take 16 bit memory boards,
say an AST ADVantage, with 120/150 ns memory, and run it successfully on a
20 or 25 MHz system.  Is this possible?  How much does performance suffer?
Does a RAM cache on the motherboard help any?

PHIL BURTON
Convergent Technologies
408 435 3791