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From: billkatt@mondo.engin.umich.edu (billkatt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: AppleShare PC woes
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.213944.4410@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 31 Aug 90 21:39:44 GMT
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In article <1990Aug31.040623.20900@nstn.ns.ca> marinell@Iris1.UCIS.Dal.Ca (Kevin Marinelli) writes:
>In article <44394@apple.Apple.COM> shoemake@Apple.COM (Mike Shoemaker) writes:
>>marinell@Iris1.UCIS.Dal.Ca (Kevin Marinelli) writes:
>>
>>
>>Does your '386 run the bus at greater than 8MHz clock speed?  The LocalTalk
>>PC card is beligerant at bus speeds greater than 8MHz. (As are many other
>>add-in cards.)
>>
>   As with most AT or 386 machines, yes my computer runs faster than 8Mhz. It
>can run at 10 or 16Mhz. Both speeds are > 8MHz.

No, in AT and higher machines, the bus usually runs at half the speed of the
processor (read almost always).  This was so that cards designed for the PC to
run at its full 4.77Mhz bus rate would run in the AT's 3Mhz bus (6Mhz/2=3Mhz).
So, most certainly your bus runs at 4,5, or 8 Mhz.

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