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From: mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Replacing 286 with 386SX drop in board
Summary: Yes, it exists (I think)
Keywords: Does it exist yet?
Message-ID: <390@intek01.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 89 22:56:36 GMT
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Organization: Intek, Inc., Bellevue WA
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I've seen press releases from two companies selling 386SX daughterboards:
Cumulus Corp. (216-464-2211), and AOX: 617-890-4402.  Haven't heard about
a ship date from AOX, but Cumulus claims to be shipping the end of February.

I also have a friend who works for Hamilton Avnet who claims that she can
get 386SX d.boards; I thought she said they were direct from Intel.  I'll
find out about this next week.

In any event: Intel just cust the price of the 386SX in half, to (as I
recall) $89 in quantity.  This should cut the total price of a 286-to-386SX
upgrade to about $350-$400, I think.  Since my company sells an 80386 version
of C++, this is a big win for us; we're considering some sort of deal
bundling a 386SX board with our compiler.

I have no affiliation with any of the aforementioned companies.
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