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From: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Help on build your own 386 machine
Keywords: 386, build your own, mail order
Message-ID: <16443@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 11 Dec 90 13:29:28 GMT
References: <1990Dec6.211935.8103@cbnewsh.att.com> <1990Dec7.042458.7275@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <216@xstor.UUCP>
Reply-To: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
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In article <216@xstor.UUCP> iverson@xstor.UUCP (Tim Iverson) writes:
> ...SVGA/multisync, DOS/Unix system for $1600.  If
> you count the $ I got for selling off the old 286, it comes to $1000.
> [BTW, this is a high-quality clone, not some cheap AMI/C&T knockoff. :-]
> 

I'm interested in the method you used to grade your system a high-quality clone
and AMI/C&T "cheap".  AMI/C&T have an outstanding record of quality and 
compatibilty with the standards they choose to duplicate.  C&T has even had its
chipset cloned due to the "clone standard" they have established.  

I'm not at all saying your system is not high quality.  There are many 
alternatives to AMI/C&T and most are good reliable parts.  I feel the area that
seperates low from high quality boards is in the manufactoring.  Many oversees
companies build with high quantity and low overhead.  They want the systems 
built fast and cheap.  Not only are corners cut but if problems are found, it
takes a while for the corrections to be implemented.  Not all companies are
like this of course.
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Mike Brim			     |	Commodore Electronics Limited
PC Analyst - System Evaluation Group | 	West Chester, PA 19380
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