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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: comments wanted on PC BRAND and DELL
Message-ID: <6629@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 90 16:48:59 GMT
References: <72299@philabs.Philips.Com> <73@qmsseq.imagen.com>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <73@qmsseq.imagen.com> pipkins@qmsseq.UUCP (Jeff Pipkins) writes:

>POINT: Before you buy ANY 286 or 386 or any machine with standard ISA
>slots, MAKE DAMN SURE BEFORE YOU BUY THAT THE BUS RUNS AT 6 OR 8 MHz.
>If it doesn't, then don't buy it under any circumstances.

My minor modification to the above: make sure it is _capable_of_being
switched_(back_down)_to_ 8 MHz.

We've a bunch of Everex STEP/25's that can be run at either SYS_CLOCK/2
or SYS_CLOCK/3.  We (now) run them at /2 since the most recently-received
ones started working with our display cards (Video7 FastWrites).  But
earlier STEP/25's _didn't_ and so we had to run the bus at the /3 rate.

kEITHe