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rbsmith@sandia.gov (Randall B Smith) writes:

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

My EISA one does not have a 16550 UART

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

My EISA motherboard has only a socket for a Weitek chip, no overdrive, no
pentium. 

>Specific to 66E:

>  Is the SCSI interface on a local bus?

No it's on the EISA Bus. There is no local bus on the EISA machine.

>Do both machines have a total of 4 simm sockets?

The EISA has 8 SIMM sockets for 2,4, or 8MB simms (in pairs only)

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

Who cares? it won't run on the EISA model. You need 2 8MB simms; but my
question is.. why buy upgrades from Gateway? They are in the box business, not
the chip business. Chips will probably be cheaper on the open market.

Also, unless you are going to load the system down with either large-memory
requirement scientific research programs, or lots of network software, 8MB is
sufficient for running OS/2 with 4-5 DOS or windoze apps simultaneously. At
work, I have 16MB memory, but I am running IBM's TCP/IP for OS/2 and will be
adding the NEtware Requestor for OS/2 in the near future. That kind of loading
requires lots of memory - the more the better. At home, without the networking
stuff, 8MB is fine (OS/2 2.0 in both places).


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chad
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