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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: A 40-MHz 80286 motherboard?
Message-ID: <12148@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 16 Sep 88 21:36:32 GMT
References: <1405@gmu90x.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <1405@gmu90x.UUCP> dana@gmu90x.UUCP (J Dana Eckart) writes:
| In the 27 September 1988 issue of PC Magazine, p73, John Dvorak reports
| on a 80286 motherboard that runs at 40-MHz.  Even more astounding is the
| claim by the supplier that a 100-MHz prototype is/was running at nearly
| 10 mips.  Is this a prank?  Has anyone heard anything about this?  What's
| the rest of the story?

  I have seen several articles about something similar which was at
least a "proof of concept" if not a real prototype. It seems that
someone did a 286 in all discrete logic (no microcode) and it ran as
fast as a 40MHz 286. They claimed that a 100MHz version was coming.
Sounds familiar, no?

  The item I describe was NOT in any way a plug replacement for your
286, but a big, expensive (I think $10-20k) "thing" which ran with a
custom AT clone. If there ever was a time for it, I think it's
passed...

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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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