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From: kevinc@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Kevin Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: 386SX vs 386DX
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Date: 2 Mar 90 23:47:56 GMT
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In article <101@penrij.LS.COM> soup@penrij.LS.COM (John Campbell) writes:
>	to "fix" the chip and break someone's system (see i486 and
>	the EISA bus-  Intel "fixed" the chip to favor IBM and hurt
>	the EISA manufacturers).

Perhaps I'm a bit out of touch as I haven't really been following all
the i486 sagas, but, is this really true.  I am about to buy an AST
386/33 machine and was going to pay the extra $ to get the EISA.  I
have already decided that MCA is not appropriate for me at this time.
Will EISA bus be hampered by the 486 "fixes"?

Kevin
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