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
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Date: 23 Jun 88 02:13:24 GMT
References: <206900116@prism> <5310@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
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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.
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