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From: david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: AMI 386/20 + Cache Memory switches
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.002128.554@kessner.denver.co.us>
Date: 25 Jun 91 00:21:28 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.003547.10577@news.cs.indiana.edu> <13000018@hplsla.HP.COM>
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In article <13000018@hplsla.HP.COM> marshall@hplsla.HP.COM (Marshall Lollis) writes:
>Yea Mike,
>Make me an offer on my one remaining 8-Meg BocaRAM card. This is a 16-bit
>add-on card which is fully loaded with 8 megs of 100nS RAM. It is 5 months
>old, and has a 5 year warranty. It works as conventional, extended or expanded
>depending on how you set it up! It comes with software drivers on a 5 1/4 disk.
>I had 2, the first sold for $375. What do you think?
>
>*Marshall*

Eeeeek!!!!  C'mon.  That board would be several times slower than adding 4 meg
to Mike's 8 meg board.  The reason is not only the 32 bit wide data bus but
it is running at 20mhz vs the ISA bus's 8 to 12mhz.  

If I were Mike, I would wait for someone to say, "Yes, I have one of those.
All you need to do is..."  Mike seemed to imply that the motherboard was made
by AMI (the MOTHERBOARD, not the _BIOS_).  AMI is still alive and well, and 
is easy to get ahold of-- but the phone number is not at hand right now...

Good Luck!

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