Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!gatech!rutgers!orstcs!bigtime!lairdt
From: lairdt@bigtime.fidonet.org (Brian Schorn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: XT clone to '286 upgrade advice needed.
Message-ID: <148.24033DD9@bigtime.fidonet.org>
Date: 22 Feb 89 22:44:00 GMT
Organization: Big Time Television
Lines: 17

All of the stuff you currently have in you XT system will work with a 
286 motherboard.  However,  you are not going to get amny of the pluses 
available with the 286 board,  such a the throughput.  I just finished 
upgradeing from a 10mhz XT to a 12mhz 286,  and everything worked,  
however I got a new floppy/hard controller card to give me the through 
put in I/O,  and I had to get an I/O card (since before I had a floppy 
I/O card on my XT).
 
If the 286 bios will allow it,  you might not have to get anything.  Or 
you might want to (for more throughput).  A floppy/RLL hard disk 
controller card will set you back upwards of $250 or so...
 
--  
Tom Laird
Domain: lairdt@bigtime.fidonet.org
UUCP: ...!{tektronix, hplabs!hp-pcd}!orstcs!bigtime!lairdt
via Big Time Television (bigtime.fidonet.org, 1:152/201)