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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: the death of the All Charge Card
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.150441.19768@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 27 Jun 90 15:04:41 GMT
References: <1990Jun26.212154.2980@amd.com>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <1990Jun26.212154.2980@amd.com> phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>The All Charge Card gives memory management to people with
>286 systems which don't have it (practically everything besides
>the AST Premium). Most of the people who need it probably have
>memory hog applications like Excel or Word for Windows. Neither
>the old 123 or the new 123 seem to benefit very much, the old
>one because it is smaller and the new one because it can use
>extended memory. Now that Win3 is out, its standard mode is far
>superior to anything the ACC can do.
>
>For people who want to do multi-tasking with DV or such, why
>would you spend $300(list) on an ACC when you could get an
>entire 16 Mhz 386SX mother board for about the same amount of
>money?
>
>Have I missed anything?
>

Uh, no, I don't think so. I too though about the AC card a while back, but
figured I would wait a little while and get a 386 motherboard. I am glad I did.

I just replaced my 286 board with a 386DX board and had a very good experience
all in all. No compatibility problems, all my cards worked, etc. Since I have
replaced my disk controller with a SCSI (can get 2.5Mbytes/sec out of the track
read ahead cache on a Quantum P105S).

In my opinion, replacing a 286 board with a 386DX or SX board is the way to go.


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