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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: looking for 486; does higher bus speed matter
Keywords: 486, bus speed
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Date: 4 Apr 91 00:05:31 GMT
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dkm@cbnews.att.com (david.k.miyashiro) writes:
>vendor at a good price. I had thought about buying a system a piece
>at a time starting with an AMI motherboard or any board that allows
>the bus to run at speeds higher than 8MHz.  It seems that I will have

What is this strange obsession with running the bus beyond its spec?
Why don't you buy a stepup transformer and plug your computer into 220V
while you're at it. It would be only a little less reliable.

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