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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Any gotchas buying Noname 386?
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Date: 4 May 90 15:36:57 GMT
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lord@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dave Lord) writes:
>
> I am looking at buying a noname 386 PC and am wondering if there are
> things I should watch out for. It will have at least 2 meg of memory,
> 67 - 80 meg of disk and VGA color. I want to run both Dos and Unix.
>
> Are there any component brands that I should insist on or avoid?


Avoid DTK motherboards.  They have a well documented problem with going in and
out of protected mode.  So well documented, that there's a patch to make
Novell Netware run with a DTK motherboard.  Deals with their proprietary cache
controller to my understanding.
 
     // JCA

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