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From: knotts@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Tom Knotts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 and SX shortage
Message-ID: <63320008@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 90 20:14:18 GMT
References: <29108@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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>with 486's just coming out, they are becoming the "premium" computer
>and the 386's have little hope but to drop in price.  the 286 is going
>to have to become _real_ cheap for people to keep buying them over
>386sx's.

I hate to admit to being uninformed, but I've been wondering what is the
difference between the 386 and 486. Can one eventually upgrade a 386 machine
to a 486?

tom