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From: keller@umd5.umd.edu (Nick Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: i486 burst mode on Micronics MB?
Message-ID: <7978@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 91 16:51:09 GMT
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Reply-To: keller@umd5.umd.edu (Nick Keller)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <12328.27af2b88@ecs.umass.edu> daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly,
ECE dept, UMass, Amherst) writes:
>
>Does anyone out there know if the Micronics 486/25 motherboard takes advantage
>of the 486 burst mode?  I am upgrading my 386/33 to 486/25 at Gateway (if you
>work it out, the 486/25 is MUCH more cost effective), but the Gateway people
>can't seem to give me a straight answer to this question.  Or the question of
>how much memory I can put on the board.  Do any of you have any answers?
Iv'e got a Gateway 486/25, Don't know about the burst mode.  The motherboard
can hold 16 MB.

>It seems that Gateway's burst of popularity, coupled with dirt cheap prices,
>has placed strain on their previously-good tech support.
>
I also had a difficult time getting hold of the tech support, finally sent a 
letter to the president & manager of tech support.  I was told that they
had been swamped by orders & are hiring new people to take care of the load.
The 486/25 is a nice box. Cheap too.