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From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga)
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Subject: Re: 486 motherboard experience?
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Date: 15 Dec 90 09:20:48 GMT
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In article <1990Dec14.214622.9998@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
>I am looking for a 486 motherboard to replace my burdened Intel 25MHz 386
>board.  (X windows, uucp, news, and compiles slow it to a crawl.)  I'm
>running ISC 2.2 Unix with their X, TCP, NFS, etc.

I am running ISC 2.2 on a trial basis on a 486/25 motherboard by US
Tronics (They are promising a 33MHz soon, and EISA later on).  It is
looks like a cleanly designed board based on a CT chip set. It fetures
128K/512K external cache, Weitek 4167 support, 16M on board,
interleaved page mode design.

So far I've been running it with 0 problems.  Whatever problems I had
in the beginning (a week ago) were caused by a defective disk
controller.  I haven't installed X yet.

I am not sure about the pricing for the board alone, but if anyone is
interested drop me a line and I send the distributor's info.