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From: mamon@acf4.UUCP (Gary Mamon)
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Subject: AT questions
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Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 00:35:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 11 00:35:00 1986
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Hi there!

We are interested in acquiring an AT clone, and looking at the literature
brings up the following questions (and also shows the extent of my ignorance):

1. Why do some machines have two or more clock-times available? Shouldn't
one want the largest clock rate when any choice is available?

2. Some advertisors indicate: "640k RAM on Motherboard". Is this memory
THE memory of the machine, or does it simply indicate the amount which the 
memory can be expanded to?

3. Can Xenix be run on any clone? Does it work well (i.e., is the total
machine performance significantly reduced when two or more users or tasks
are competing for CPU?).


Gary A. Mamon ---> Astrophysics Group, New York University Physics Department
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