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From: c60b-1eq@web-1c.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson)
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Subject: Re: 80386 accelarator cards for the 8088?
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Date: 11 Apr 91 04:13:56 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.215938.10599@cbnewsk.att.com> chardin@cbnewsk.att.com (christopher.hardin) writes:
>	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).

A few years ago add-on 386 boards were (relatively) popular, but today
they've mostly died out.  The price of a 386 motherboard has declined
significantly so as to reduce the popularity of the add-on boards.  IMHO
you should can the motherboard and get a 386 motherboard for your system
(be sure it fits in the chassis).

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