Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!spdcc!ima!johnl From: johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Intel 386SX chip & its applications Message-ID: <1131@ima.ISC.COM> Date: 23 Jun 88 02:13:24 GMT References: <206900116@prism> <5310@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) Organization: Not much Lines: 14 In article <5310@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> gas@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Guerry A. Semones) writes: > I'll leave it to the more technically-wise to say whether the >16 mhz P9 will operate in some of the older 6, 8 mhz AT's. Sure it will. Of course it will only run at 6 or 8 mHz. At a given clock speed on the same bus, a 386 is only a little faster than a 286. The speed you see from a 386 machine is due almost entirely to its high clock rate. A P9 would be nice to let us 286 owners run some decent software like, for instance, 386/ix rather than OS/2. -- John R. Levine, IECC, PO Box 349, Cambridge MA 02238-0349, +1 617 492 3869 { ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.something Rome fell, Babylon fell, Scarsdale will have its turn. -G. B. Shaw