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Article #114Re: Motherboard w/ 16 SIMM SOCKETS NEEDED !!
From: Steven W. Bixby
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 16:33
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 16:33
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Marcelo R Lopez Jr (marcelol@gate.net) wrote:
: : NICE Super EISA Rev.1
: : AMI Enterprise III
: Also cost an arm and a leg...unjustifably...in my opinion.
Not really. The NiCE can be had for around $225 nowadays - that's $100
more than a cheap no-name generic 486 board you see floating around
here. And it's a GREAT board!
The AMI is basically a standards bearer - if you want the best, you buy
AMI. I'm not sure about the E-III, but most of the AMI boards come with
I/O built in - 16550's, Parallel, and SCSI are built into the AMI
boards. If you figure you'll spend about $500 for this board (w/o CPU),
then 2-300 of it is 'extras' you'll have to buy as external components,
and they take up slots as well.
I once went "cheap is better", but after screwing around with half-assed
compromises (like Alaris 486SLC2-66/VLB) for weeks, I realized saving a
couple dozen hours of effort 'debugging' incompatible hardware more than
paid for the extra cost of GOOD equipment. To me, a couple dozen hours
represents another 2-gig drive, or 32 megs more memory, or...? Well
worth it.
--
-swb- (Steve Bixby, sbixby@crl.com)
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