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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: <1540@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 89 15:37:02 GMT
References: <786@awdprime.UUCP> <1989Nov2.080213.2989@ico.isc.com> <89Nov2.162059est.18926@me.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <89Nov2.162059est.18926@me.utoronto.ca>, yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) writes:
|  Yes, but what if you have a 286 laptop, and have no qualms about opening
|  it up.  How much glue is required to get the SX to look like a 286?  Can
|  it be done with a 'smart' socket that goes between the SX and the socket
|  on the board or is there something fundamentally wrong with this idea?

  AOX sells just such a device. I rejected the idea because it cost as
much as a motherboard, but for a laptop it would be nice. They advertise
in a number of mags, I got their address off the net, posted it back
later, and now have tossed it.
-- 
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