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From: feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 486SX - Intel now telling lies
Message-ID: <1991May31.025705.27482@netcom.COM>
Date: 31 May 91 02:57:05 GMT
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amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:

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>replacing the 486sx with a 486-dx (or whatever they call it,..,.).  On the
>repair front, it allows me to keep a fairly cheap 486 sx in stock at an 
>affordable price for system repair/diagnosis.  If a 486 fries, I can pop in
>the 486 sx, and order a replacement, allowing the system to return to
>service (basically, with obvious limitations...) immediately.....

Note that the 486sx runs at 20 mhz. It may (probably won't) not work
at 25 or 33 mhz clock of the original system.
-- 
David Feustel, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, (219) 482-9631
EMAIL: feustel@netcom.com  or feustel@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu