Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!pyrnj!dasys1!schuster
From: schuster@dasys1.UUCP (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 40 MHZ 286?
Summary: Can you spell H-O-A-X ?
Message-ID: <6959@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 88 14:16:42 GMT
References: <342@intek01.UUCP> <24728@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <3333@homxc.UUCP> <7761@bigtex.uucp> <670@hgcvax.uucp>
Reply-To: schuster@dasys1.UUCP (Michael Schuster)
Organization: The Big Electric Cat; New York, N.Y. USA
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In article <670@hgcvax.uucp> network@hgcvax.uucp (craig chaiken) writes:
>     I read about the Tienwei 40-MHz Intel 80286 motherboard in John Dvorak's
>Viewpoint column in the Sept. 27, 1988 issue of PC Magazine.  I was wondering
>if anyone has read any articles that shed more light on this subject.

It's a hoax.
They slowed down the timers on a 10 mHz AT board to make it look as
though it was running speed programs at quadruple speed. The
current scuttlebut is that there is no "40 mHz Chang modification".
You want gold from lead?

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