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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Dell 386 systems, esp. 310
Keywords: 80386, Dell, PC Limited
Message-ID: <2635@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 90 03:52:22 GMT
References: <41379@ut-emx.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <41379@ut-emx.uucp> wilson@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Samuel M. Wilson) writes:
| does anyone have strong opinions for or against Dell's 386 line?
| Also, does anyone have experience with the 310, 325, or 333, which
| might be useful to one, like me, getting his hands on such a machine?

  We use Dell's at work in fairly large quantities, and have found the
Dell ISA systems to be very solid and reliable. The on-site service on
new machines is nice, and the vendor seems to stand behind them very
well.

  My sole complaint is that on systems which have the serial ports on
the motherboard, the autoconfig program tends to disable the 2nd serial
port is it is active at reboot. After that you must power cycle to get
it back.

  Newer versions have this in CMOS config, and towers have a reset
button, so I don't think there's a problem on newer machines. The only
time it bites me is installing a new kernel, if I forget to disable the
serial port before rebooting.
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