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From: hammerr@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (rodney hammer)
Subject: Re: 80386 accelarator cards for the 8088?
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In article <1991Apr10.215938.10599@cbnewsk.att.com> chardin@cbnewsk.att.com (christopher.hardin) writes:
>
>Greetings,
>
>	I have an old Zenith 8088 PC at home.  I was wondering if there are
>any 386 accelarator cards for such a dinosaur.  The ultimate would be a card
>that would take over the box upon boot.  It would also have onboard memory
>(1 meg at least) and a 387 socket.  Does such a thing exist or will I have to
>get a new home system?  If there are such cards, are there any
>incompatibilities I need to know about?  Any pointers would be greatly
>appreciated.  By the way, I'm not much of a MS-DOS hack, so please use short
>words (grin).
>-- 
>
>TTFN (Ta ta for now) -- Tigger
>Chris Hardin	chris@green.att.com	...!att!green!chris	404.750.8921

Well, Chris, we have hundreds of Zeniths on campus, we have many many
fewer now than we had. There is a reason for this (actually
several)...not the least of which is the older models penchant for
totally non-standard behavior...you realize that the Zeniths are not in
general hardware compatible with IBMs, yes?

Recommendation? GET A NEW SYSTEM! Throwing more money at a VW bug
won't ever make the VW a Rolls Royce.....

Just my $.02....

Rod Hammer 
University Computing Services
Field Services Supervisor
Indiana University

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