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From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke,2C-119,7239,ATTBL)
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Subject: Re: NEED OPINION ON A GATEWAY 2000 CONFIGURATION
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Date: 18 Mar 91 15:23:16 GMT
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In article <1991Mar15.193130.5254@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith) writes:
>
>I have a 386-33 from Ultra-Comp.  Ultra-Comp uses the same Micronics
>motherboard as Gateway.  It holds 4 MEG on board with an additional
>12 MEG on an optional card.  This gives 16 MEG total.  I believe
>16 MEG is the minumum for Micronics 386 and 486 motherboards.
>
>You might have been thinking of just the proprietary 12 MEG RAM card.

I believe Gateway is currently shipping a system using a different
Micronics motherboard which can have up to 8MB ram on it, unlike
an earlier board which could only have 4MB on the motherboard.

Gateway tends to vary the makeup of their PC's depending upon
competitive conditions.  If they can find a board or device
at less cost which allows them to reduce the price, they
just do it.  Thus the different Micronics board, the use
of a 200MB IDE hard disk, NI monitor and Diamond video board.

My PC, purchased from them just three months ago has a different
makeup, although I have upgraded to the NI monitor and Diamond
board.

Someone recently termed this "screwdriver" configuration, although
I have found that IBM does the same thing, though perhaps not
so often.

Forrest Gehrke feg@dodger.att.com