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From: torkil@psivax.UUCP (Torkil Hammer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WANTED: info on 386-25 system board replacements
Message-ID: <2924@psivax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 89 17:42:52 GMT
References: <4548@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: torkil@psivax.UUCP (Torkil Hammer)
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Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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In article <4548@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> wolfordj@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (j.w.wolford) writes:
#I would like to get a new system board (mother board for those who still
#use "gender")...to do multi-tasking with DESQview and such...
#
#I have the following request list, but is there anything else I should
#consider:
#
#
#98- Board size, xt or full size.... does not matter, case takes both.
#99- Number of slots (fairly standard...)..
#
Slots are anything but standard.  Check a byte magazine for range.
Also, a new game is 'free slots' because it used to be that built-in
standard hardware took 3 slots (graphics, disk, i/o) but some boards
now come with such amenities and now you wonder whether the motherboard
VGA is the VGA you want and such things.
Anything else equal you should get more slots in a full size board.