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From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Brain-Dead 286 (now Bus Speeds)
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Date: 6 Mar 90 19:09:56 GMT
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MAM155@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>I hesitate to purchase a '386 machine becauseI found that the Bus speed is to
>fast to handle some expansion cards!!!! I mean that one card would work and
>another, of the same model, would not work on the same computer !!!!!
>the machinesthhat has happened on are AT clones with DTK mother boards.
>so I would wait a little longer to buy a '386

All the 386s I've used run the I/O bus at 8 MHz.  Only the processor and
32-bit RAM run at the system's rated speed.  I would expect to have MORE
problems with a fast 286, because the entire system runs at one rate.  I've
used Compaq, Dell, Everex and Dolch 386s and never even once had a bus speed
problem.  This problem was successfully handled with the original 386 - the
Compaq DeskPro 386.
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