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From: bkliewer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Bradley Dyck Kliewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Buying a 386 machine?
Message-ID: <8151@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 88 02:31:01 GMT
References: <21771@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <21986@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: bkliewer@iuvax.UUCP (Bradley Dyck Kliewer)
Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington
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In article <21986@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
>Personally I'd take a bigger box over a little -- usually there's more
>space between the boards, which helps with cooling.  This doesn't
>matter when you only have 2 or 3 boards, but I've dealt with machines
>where all the slots are filled with large boards, and it makes a
>difference there.

You may also want the extra space for another drive (assuming the larger
box has space for a second full height drive).  I have an AT, and will be
adding a second hard disk within the next month -- since there is room for
two, I will be adding capacity rather than simply upgrading (I also expect
some programs to run faster (especially databases) since the heads won't
skip around between overlays and data files).  I'm looking at filling the
spaces with 1/2 height 1.2M, 1.44M 3.5", 40 Meg and a full height 80M (I
already have both floppies and one hard drive).  This wouldn't be possible
in a smaller chasis without going external.

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