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From: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: '386's SX's and DX's
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Date: 21 Jul 90 05:02:45 GMT
References: <31122@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <46500144@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi)
Organization: University of Rochester
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In article <46500144@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>This post (unwarranted?) may not be true for all people. First, the 386SX
>is a *full* 32 bit microprocessor; only thing is, its interface to the 
>external world is through 16 bits. All software intended to run on the 
>386DX should run absolutely correctly on the SX.

Agreed, my 386sx clone (a swan 386sx) is subjectively identical in speed
to the lab's 386dx (a 16mhz ibm ps/2 model 70). Our 16mhz 386dx inboard/386
xt feels slower due to the slow hard drive and video (my everex ega seems
much faster than our ati vga-wonder 256k)

with 20mhz 386sx's available, there is no need to buy anything less than 
a 25mhz 386dx (no real speed advantage with today's software)


tim