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From: morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: 386sx
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Date: 10 Mar 90 08:59:16 GMT
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In article <3000@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> kaleb@mars.UUCP (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
>news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) writes:
>
>>sx machines don't run stuff, they hang up..   i hate them. even Epson.
>
>What stuff don't they run?  My SX has run everything I've thrown at it;
>ESIX, OS/2, all my MS-DOS stuff, including Desqview 386 and Windows 386.  
>Am I missing something?

Don't tell American Airlines.  They are buying several thousand AT&T 386/SX
machines.  From what I hear, they did a _very_ exhaustive test on them,
and couldn't find one incompatibility.  The motherboard is a Intel design.
It has the floppy disk controller, hard disk controller, VGA, two serial
and one parallel ports on the motherboard, up to 8mb of RAM, plus 4 slots.
It's a very nice box.  The configuration I saw was very clean - with what's
already on the motherboard, you don't need any cards.  

And I can't imagine Intel designing a motherboard that wouldn't run right.

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