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From: wallwey@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM)
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Subject: Re: Buying a 386
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Date: 30 May 90 19:59:29 GMT
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In article <3920@darkstar.ucsc.edu> ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) writes:
>The price of SX support cards will be much cheaper due to the narrower bus.
>I think you may also be able to use off-the-shelf AT cards until SX-specific
>cards are made.			-ted-
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There are no (as far as I know) any such thing as 386SX specific cards---all the
386SX computers that I have seen use the AT ISA bus. The whole reason
intel designed the 386SX was so that 386 computers could be built easily
and use AT equipment, memory, etc, and to keep the price real low!\

The other two buses are the Micro-Chanel and the new but AT
compatible EISA bus.

	-Dean Wallwey