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From: johng@trwind.TRW.COM (John Greene)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Wire-wrap Question
Message-ID: <290@trwind.TRW.COM>
Date: 15 Jan 88 18:35:48 GMT
References: <7110004@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: johng@trwind.UUCP (John Greene)
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>Does anybody know if wire-wrap can be used to build a reliable proto-type
>at 20 Mhz clock rates and what techniques can be employed minimize
>problems ?  I am trying to determine the feasibility building a homebrew
>computer using 20 Mhz 80386 chipset.
>
We have wire-wrapped several boards with clock rates of 20 and 30 MHz with
little or no trouble.  The main concern is to keep the wires as short as
possible and bypass, bypass, bypass.  

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