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Article #198Re: upgrade 286 to 486
From: kand. Pontus Gagge
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 19:12
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 19:12
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chiang@Ingres.COM (Ng Hoong Chiang) writes: >>A few local companies here offer to upgrade AT to 486 for about US$700. Does any >>body out there have any experience? What is the performance of the upgraded PC >>compared to the original 486? >If your HDD on your 286 is slow, and the software you are running required >a lot of disk access, the performance of the upgraded PC will not be good. ...but on the other hand, with enough Mb's for disk caches, a slow HD can be tolerated. -- /-------------------------+--------------- DISCLAIMER -----------------\ | kand. Pontus Gagge | The views expressed herein are compromises | | University of Link|ping | between my mental subpersonae, and may be | | c89ponga@und.ida.liu.se | held by none of them. | \-------------------------+--------------------------------------------/
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!concert!gatech!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!sunic!liuida!c89ponga From: c89ponga@odalix.ida.liu.se (kand. Pontus Gagge) Subject: Re: upgrade 286 to 486 Message-ID: <1992Nov4.191257.28637@ida.liu.se> Sender: news@ida.liu.se Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden References: <1992Nov4.051338.21754@pony.Ingres.COM> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 19:12:57 GMT Lines: 17