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From: stroh@ssc-vax.UUCP (Steven K Stroh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: the death of the All Charge Card
Summary: Better solution than an All Charge Card - 386sx board replaces
	 the 286
Message-ID: <1498@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 90 00:11:26 GMT
References: <1990Jun26.212154.2980@amd.com> <1981@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics, Seattle WA
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A better way to go was recently announced by a company called (I
believe) Evergreen Technologies in Portland, OR.  They announced a
small board very similar to the All Charge Card, but what they did
was to put an 80386sx chip and the necessary support circuitry to
make it pin compatible with an 80286.  You remove the 286 chip, and
plug in this board, and voila!  You're a 386 user.  Cost is $295.

It's important to note that this is not an accelerator card, like
the Intel boards.  This is simply a processor upgrade.  There isn't
any memory on the board, and although the 386sx is capable of 16
MHz, it runs at your system's normal clock speed.

If I were All Computers, I'd be really sweating now.

Steve Stroh