Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 386 vs. 386SX ???? Summary: small savings Message-ID: <525@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 26 Sep 89 17:36:46 GMT References: <89268.165003MHS108@PSUVM.BITNET> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 17 The price between an SX and full 386 is getting pretty small. You may want to consider what your time is worth. The numbers I'm seen on the net for UNIX indicate at least 2:1 faster for a 386. You can get a 386 from someplace like Compuadd for about $2200, swap in your hard disks, cards, etc, and sell off the 286 for some of the cost. You can also get some pretty cheap motherboards to swap. I would go with the real thing. If you are going to keep it for a while you may as well start with a current level performance. You know the newer version of UNIX and OS/2 will need more CPU. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon