Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpsgwp!plim From: plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Which 386/33 Motherboard? Message-ID: <3370023@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> Date: 6 May 91 02:38:38 GMT References: <2344@wet.UUCP> Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr Lines: 28 / pk@wet.UUCP (Philip King) / 7:57 am May 1, 1991 / writes: $ 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. $ Off hand, these were usually C&T chipset, AMI bios and Intel 386. Version of OS/2 --- I am not too sure. .... But heck, this is supposed to confuse you ;-). The general idea is that Taiwanese clones are more standard stuff than US brand name clones which have some other enhancement built in. This fact improves their compatibility chances. Regards, ___o``\________________________________________________ ___ __ _ _ Peter Lim. V````\ @ @ . .. ... .- -> 76 MIPS at under US$20K !! --- -- - - /.------------------------------------------------ === == = = >--_// . .. ... .- -> 57 MIPS at under US$12K !! `' . If you guessed SUN, IBM or DEC, you are wrong ! E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, Singapore 0410. #include