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From: gas@ecsvax.UUCP (Guerry A. Semones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ALL CHARGECARD(memory mang.)
Summary: Then again I may be wrong...386 software and the ALL...
Message-ID: <5167@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 88 18:41:37 GMT
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I just talked to a friend whose company has informally tested the 
ALL ChargeCard.  With EMS and Ansi drivers installed, etc., it leaves
about 850k of RAM for DOS (instead of 640k).

He also indicated that in THEORY you can run '386 software (ie Windows
386) on your '286 with this card.  He said PC-MOS definately works, and
I assume he meant PC-MOS 386.  So maybe I was wrong, but I'll only 
believe it when I see it.

This may be made MOOT if Intel would finally begin providing the
fabled P9 chip that is said to be a 16-bit version of the 80386 chip.
Its been said that with a wafer-board to make it pin compatible with
the '286 chip's pins, that it can be a drop-in replacement for the
80286.  How about that?  Your old AT with a 16-bit '386, I could live
with that.
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