Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!emerald!pcg From: pcg@emerald.cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 386SX replacements for 80286 machines Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 89 20:38:52 GMT References: <786@awdprime.UUCP> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 13 In-reply-to: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com's message of 31 Oct 89 14:25:26 GMT In article <786@awdprime.UUCP> ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) writes: Whatever happened to the 386SX modules that could directly replace the 80286 chip on AT motherboards? I remember hearing that several were announced, but haven't seen anything about them in the last year. Anyone care to comment... I'll summarize email responses... With 386sx motherboards going for $375 mail order, a plug in 386sx replacement for the 286 CPU alone should be much cheaper. Hard luck... -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk