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From: bobr@zeus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: new 80386 machine buses
Message-ID: <1148@zeus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 16:51:54 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 23 16:51:54 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Jan-87 05:47:12 EST
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Reply-To: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed)
Organization: CAE Systems Division, Tektronix Inc., Beaverton OR
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Most of the 80386 systems available provide little in the way of new busses.
The Compaq 386 has a single 32 bit slot for a non-wait-state memory card.
Two boards are available for that slot, one fitting 256Kb chips for a max of
2MB and the other fitting 1Mb chips for a max of 8MB RAM.  The rest of the
slots are a mix of AT an XT compatible slots.  

The other machines from what I've read mostly provide a similar mix of AT
and/or XT slots, while a Multibus II board provided by Intel has a real 32
bit bus.

-- 
Robert Reed, Tektronix CAE Systems Division, bobr@zeus.TEK