Path: utzoo!dciem!nttor!contact!zooid!dve From: dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 386SX Motherboards Message-ID: Date: 12 Jan 91 19:28:11 GMT References: <1991Jan11.071030.15193@d.cs.okstate.edu> Organization: here Lines: 15 ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes: > I too was looking for a 386SX motherboard a couple of months ago, but was > told repeatedly by different mail-order houses that due to short supply > of the 386SX mb, they are only selling SX as a system. One guy said > that the big japanese firms are snatching up the SX mb's. Does anyone > know if the SX mb is still in short supply and is the japanese thing > true? > I have heard that (in Canada at least, which is pretty similiar to the US) the shortage isn't as bad as it was a few months ago. About the Japanese buying up all the boards, from what I heard the problem is in Europe, where apparently they are paying much higher prices for the boards as PCs pick up in popularity.