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Hello:

I posted the following on 1/17/93. However, my mailbox was
down through 1/18/93. Any mailed responses are lost. Please
resend.

Thanks!
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It sounds like there is a lot of Gateway 486/66 experience
out there. I have a few questions regarding both the
4DX2-66V AND 4DX2-66E models:

Is the serial-i/o implemented with a 16550 style UART (one
that contains 16-word fifos)?

Can one disable the serial-i/o and parallel-i/o to support
the use of the address space + irq for an i/o adpater card?

How many pins are in the CPU expansion socket (169, 238 or xxx)?
I am curious about support for the Pentium Overdrive chip.

Has anyone had experience with the local bus SCSI option for
the 66V? Please provide details (controller manufacturer, 500MB
SCSI upgrade cost, Data Transfer Rate, Cache size provided on 
the controller, performance relative to motherboard IDE).

How does a 66V with SCSI compare to the 66E?

In general, how does the 66E perform relative to the 66V?

Specific to 66E:

  Is the SCSI interface on a local bus?
  Can it support an ATI Ultra Pro LB card in addition to the
  SCSI?

  What is the Ultra Pro LB upgrade cost?

I thought I understood Gateway's telephone "on-hold ad" to state 
9.4 MB/m on the $195 Colorado Jumbo 250 tape upgrade. Does this 
upgrade include an accelerated controller? If not, is the 
accelerated controller available as an option?

Do both machines have a total of 4 simm sockets?

What is the cost of a single 16MB simm upgrade?

What is the ramdac & 2MB upgrade cost for the ATI Ultra Pro?

Thank you, I will summarize responses.

Randall Smith - rbsmith@sandia.gov