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From: peterch@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Peter Chao)
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Subject: Re: 386 vs. 386SX ????
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Date: 4 Oct 89 20:20:45 GMT
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In article <1640021@hpspcoi.HP.COM> dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low) writes:
>>Can anyone out there help me to decide if I should get a 386 or a 386SX?
>
>The 386SX is basically an attempt to redo the 286 correctly. The
>SX makes sense only for people on a very tight budget or who have
>a 286 and want to do a cheap upgrade as there are SX upgrade kits
>for many 286 machines. IOW, get the real 386.
>
>			   Danny Low
>     HP SPCD   dlow%hpspcoi@hplabs.hp.com   ...!hplabs!hpspcoi!dlow 
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    If you do not need more than 20MHz, then some 386SX based machines may 
satisfy you.  I bought a MicroBase 386SX after "comparison shopping" for
some time.  It runs at 20MHz or 16MHz modes.  At 20MHz, it performs as
fast as any 386/20's I compared with, and actually faster than some of
them.  It certainly costed a lot less.  The applications I ran included
dBase IV, some neural net programs, and a VLSI layout editor.

       Peter S. Chao