Xref: utzoo comp.unix.microport:1642 comp.sys.intel:543 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!swlabs!jack From: jack@swlabs.UUCP (Jack Bonn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Pity the poor 286 folk Message-ID: <2577@swlabs.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 13:39:52 GMT References: <326@siswat.UUCP> <472@uport.UUCP> <9695@ico.ISC.COM> Reply-To: jack@swlabs.UUCP (Jack Bonn) Organization: Software Labs, Ltd. Easton, CT USA Lines: 14 In article <9695@ico.ISC.COM> rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) writes: >Sure, but that doesn't mean it costs as much as a 286 box today. More to >the point, a 386 box costs a lot of money and I already have a 286 box, so >the 386 isn't of any help. [This is me personally, not me as part of ISC!] What ever happened to the 386 that would plug into a 286 socket? I remember seeing a description of it in the literature, yet the 386SX seems to have none of the qualities of the 80288 as it was called. Is there another chip waiting in the wings (or has its wings been clipped)? I suppose that a daughter board would probably do the trick, but my guess it would cost as much as a 80386 mother board. Any further info? -- Jack Bonn, <> Software Labs, Ltd, Box 451, Easton CT 06612 uunet!swlabs!jack (UUCP) jack%swlabs.uucp@uunet.uu.net (INTERNET)