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From: pk@wet.UUCP (Philip King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Which 386/33 Motherboard?
Message-ID: <2375@wet.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 91 23:57:36 GMT
References: <2344@wet.UUCP> <3370020@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com>
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <3370020@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) writes:
>/ pk@wet.UUCP (Philip King) /  6:17 pm  Apr 24, 1991 / writes:
>
>$ I'm putting together a new PC, and have decided (more or less) on a 
>$ 386/33.  I started out thinking about the 'no-name' boards, but being
>$ that I plan to run UNIX, OS-2, et al, and things like SCSI controllers,
>$ I decided to go with a topnotch 'name brand' motherboard.
>$ 
>Let me confuse you a little. Among my friends, I have noticed that
>OS/2 has problem running on 'name brand' clone, but runs okay on cheap
>Taiwanese clones  :-).
 
 
Well, I suppose that's interesting- but I'm going to take it with a grain
of salt.  I have a hard time believing something that's so generic.  There
are so many chipsets out there, so many motherboard designs.  Can you be
more specific?  What type of CPU were they using, 386?  And which chipset,
Chips and Tech, VLSI, TI, OPTI, VIA, ???  And which version of OS/2?  And
which BIOS?  Thanks.
 
 
 
					Philip
					pk@wet.uucp
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