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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Why buy a DX over an SX?
Message-ID: <3869@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 91 22:22:34 GMT
References: <14534@encore.Encore.COM> <1991Apr12.162615.13529@holos0.uucp> <1991Apr21.203004.9909@unlv.edu> <72386@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1991May6.170707.27182@cs.utk.edu> <1991May7.093840.23795@hellgate.utah.edu>
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In article <1991May7.093840.23795@hellgate.utah.edu> cyang%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Cheng Yang) writes:

| Do you mean it will be possible to just pull out our 286s from motherboards
| and plug in 386SX?  That will be very interesting!  It seems that I can save
| my 286 motherboard! 

  But do you want to? Unless you have a 16 or 20 HMz 286 you are going
to be running a lot slower.

  BTW: I don't believe this rumor for an instant. If Intel intended to
do this they would have done it long ago and killed AMD's 286 business
dead. I believe that Intel will use every line they have to make 386 and
486, and adjust the price to sell them. Unless they could sell the chip
for as much as a 386 they would lose money, becuase it's not likely to
be any cheaper to make.
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