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From: davidsen@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 386(sx?) daughterboard for 286 socket?
Message-ID: <10973@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 13 Aug 90 20:40:21 GMT
References: <9008091604.aa05588@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <9008091604.aa05588@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU> baxter@zola.ICS.UCI.EDU (Ira Baxter) writes:
| Does anybody build 386 replacements that plug into 286 sockets?
| Do the costs justify this, or should I just consider getting a 386 motherboard
| and giving the 286 to some poor starving word-processer?

  I'd replace the motherboard. There is a slight cost advantage to the
drop in, but there is very little track record with what results you
get. A good MB will be a bit more, but you will have that 286 MB to sell
of to cut down the price. And 32 bit memory to run if you go DX instead
of SX.
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	- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdgw1.crd.ge.com)
	GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8, KW-C206; Schenectady NY 12345