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From: chao@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Chia-Chi Chao)
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Subject: Re: Brain-Dead 286 ?
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Date: 7 Mar 90 02:28:48 GMT
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In article <90065.025357MAM155@psuvm.psu.edu> 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
>
>                                        Mike

The C&T NEAT chipset can program the bus clock to be: processor speed/2,
processor speed/3, or AT bus speed (8 MHz?).