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From: mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 80387SXs (was AMD 80C287 chip)
Summary: additions sources for 80387SX
Message-ID: <1990Nov4.175401.17770@uncecs.edu>
Date: 4 Nov 90 17:54:01 GMT
References: <1990Nov1.221515.15575@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1990Nov3.214858.22974@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
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[additional sources for 80387SX's as discount, posted for another
reader who does not have posting priveleges}

   The current issue of _PC Week_ (10/29/90) has a few ads that might
be of interest. MicroWay is selling the Cyrix chip for $245 while US
OUT (aka ELKCO?) has it for $235. (Prices are for the 16Mhz version).
Both places have the Intel version available for around $280. If you're
a big spender (and/or get a large number of "me toos"), a place called
The Chip Merchant has the Cyrix chip for $215 each for dealers only.

   Do you have any comparisons of the Cyrix and Intel chips? I know
Cyrix claims theirs is 100% compatible ("with IBM PC based software and
socket standards" says their ad in _PC Week_) but I also know ads can
be rather misleading.

George
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theall@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu			Dept. of Economics
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