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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386SX replacements for 80286 machines
Keywords: whatever happened to them?
Message-ID: <1533@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 2 Nov 89 14:34:23 GMT
References: <786@awdprime.UUCP> <1989Nov2.080213.2989@ico.isc.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <1989Nov2.080213.2989@ico.isc.com>, rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:

|  How many people got intel's glitzy ad saying that NOW! is the time to go to
|  a 386, with the notes that the 386SX will make it easy to upgrade to the
|  386 at 286 prices?  I did, and I'd love to do the upgrade.  Maybe we should
|  beat up on intel to show us where we can get the upgrades NOW?

  The easiest way to do this is by replacing the motherboard. You should
be able to get a new SX motherboard for about $350-400 (I have seen
dealer prices of $286 if you can qualify). This will NOT give you all of
the performance of a 386DX, but it will run DOS programs at the speed of
a 16MHz AT, and you can use 16 bit memory with no penalty. Actually you
pay the penalty all the time, but it's still fast.

  It may be cheaper to replace the m.b. than to try to fake in an
adaptor for an SX or DX chip using the old board.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon