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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 40 MHZ 286?
Message-ID: <24728@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 3 Sep 88 18:48:32 GMT
References: <342@intek01.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group
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In article <342@intek01.UUCP> mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes:
|John Dvorak's "Inside Track" column in the 9/27/88 PC Mag goes on
|about some "Chang modification" of the 286 motherboard, yielding
|ridiculous throughput.  Dvorak says he "saw this thing run, I tested
|it, and it is *incredible* ... sells for $350 to $400 and delivers
|over 5 [MIPS] performance using ... 200 nanosecond memory and no cache!"

He's probably completely out in left field.  I've heard rumors of
high-speed 286 chips (new design and/or new materials give much higher
speed ratings), so it's possible he's seen such a thing, but without a
cache I can't imagine how you'd get 5mips with 200ns chips, even
SRAMS.

jim frost
adt!madd@bu-it.bu.edu