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From: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 vs. 386sx
Message-ID: <3494@cpoint.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 90 20:52:37 GMT
References: <25866@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells)
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Organization: Clearpoint Research Corp., Hopkinton Mass.
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In article <25866@cup.portal.com> Vaprak@cup.portal.com (John C Foy) writes:
>In the recent PC Mag, the AST, Austin, and Zeos SX systems
>received Editor's Choice awards.

For those of you who don't know ... PS Magazine's official position is that
they do not recommend the purchase of 8086 or 80286 based PC clones ... 
period.  They are convinced that 386 specific software is imminent enough
that the normal business life cycle of a 286 based PC (3 years) would find
the machine crippled by the software it wouldn't be able to run.
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