Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!scjones
From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel 386SX chip & its applications
Message-ID: <310@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 88 22:13:01 GMT
References: <206900116@prism>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <206900116@prism>, john@prism.TMC.COM writes about the 386sx:
> Maybe I'm totally wrong on this, but isn't this the version of the 386 chip 
> that you can just pop into a 286 socket and blast off at near-386 speed 
> and performance?  And if so, wouldn't the obvious thing that everyone 
> would like to do be to buy one for their AT?  Why build NEW systems 
> around the thing?  If all the chips being produced are going into new 
> systems, it will be hard or impossible to buy one for the purpose it was 
> intended for originally -- upgrading from 286.  

Would that life were so simple....  No, you can't just pop a 386sx into a
286 socket and run.  Intel in their infinite wisdom changed the pinout so
you need an adaptor board at the very least (probably a few chips here and
there, too).

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