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From: akcs.amparsonjr@vpnet.UUCP (Anthony M. Parson, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Suntac baby-286 memory upgrade?
Message-ID: <25ae24ce:3560.4comp.sys.ibm.pc;1@vpnet.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 90 03:00:08 GMT
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Since I posted the original msg, I have taken delivery of an AMI board, with
4 meg of 80 ns RAM, and 64K cache.  256K of ROM includes diags,setup.  RE:
waste of the original motherboard that is being replaced, you are right.
However, I'm building a new machine and decided to keep the turbo XT as a
working spare (I have enough parts here to do this).  By keeping open space
on the XT's AboveBoard 286 expanded memory card, if I upgrade the XT to 
an 80286, I'll still have a spot for the AboveBoard 286 and the XT mother
board ram.  Used XT motherboards are fairly cheap.  Yes, a waste, but I'l