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From: sct@lanl.gov (Stephen Tenbrink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 486's
Summary: eisa not veisa
Message-ID: <11653@lanl.gov>
Date: 16 Jan 91 20:34:11 GMT
References: <655@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1991Jan14.171123.8461@demott.com> <958@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
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Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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In article <958@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>, ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) writes:
>   the AT bus.  With some 486 suppliers, the difference in the street price
>   of a 486-25 and a 486-33 is only about $500, about the same (best case)
>   between the ISA bus and a 32-bit VEISA bus.
> 
>   -- Marc Ries



Just for the record, it's the EISA bus not the VEISA.  VEISA is the name of
ALR's pc based on the EISA bus.  We just received two with the 386 33Mhz
cpu.  The cost for a 5 Meg system with 80 MB disk (no display or display
driver) was around $2500.