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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 286 w/co-processor vs. 386 price/performance ???
Keywords: 286 386 co-processor
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Date: 2 Nov 90 21:14:37 GMT
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In article <13126@encore.Encore.COM> elliot@xenna.encore.com writes:
|STOP!!  I dislike reading responses from people who speculate rather than who
|know the facts.  All *new* 286 boards have LIM 4.0. A 286-16 board WITH

Too bad you don't know all the facts yourself. Nearly all
286 boards which have LIM 4.0 have software 4.0, not the
full hardware 4.0 and this a major failing if you want to
run DESQview.

(this is because most of the important features in the LIM 4.0
spec are "optional" and not required to be 4.0 compliant)

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