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In article <1990Oct19.103004.17621@iesd.auc.dk> sunesen@iesd.auc.dk (Peter Sunesen) writes:
>If there anyone there think, thay can get a 486-25 motherboard fore
>$1100 thay think wrong. (A 486-25 motherboard cost about 2200-2500 US$
>in Taiwan). So if Kaleb Keithley can deliver 486-25 board to 1100 US$,
>ok, I think I know about 100 person that will like to ordre on!!!

Always nice to hear from someone who knows better what I did than I do.
I paid US$675 for a 128K cache 486 motherboard, OPTI chip set, AMI bios
2 8-bit slots, 5 16-bit slots, *NO* cpu.  I paid US$450 for a B5 486.
Yes, I know that there are B6 and C0 revs available.  I'll let you add 
up the prices, but if you can't, it's US$1125.

I'm not in the business, I'm not interested in being in the business, so 
I'm not offering to deliver anything, at any price.  Well, maybe if you want
to offer $1500 cash, up front, I could probably be tempted to go buy some
more and ship them to you.

However, you can go to the same place I did, and do the same thing I did.
Here in Southern California they have Computer Swap Meets, basically an
open air marketplace where different vendors congregate to sell their
merchandise.  The one I went to, on the CSU Northridge Campus is *right*
next to the LAPD Devonshire Division Police Station, and is patrolled by
State University Police.  All vendors are legit, they must have business
licenses posted, they write receipts on printed invoices, they have
printed business cards that have their business addresses.  All merchandise
is warranteed.  While some stuff might be "hot", I believe the probability
of the stuff I bought being stolen is very, very low.

I post the prices I paid, as any good capitalist should, to provide feedback
to the marketplace.  Would you pay Compaq, Dell, or anyone else for that
matter, $5000 to $10000 when you could build it yourself for $2000?

>Norton Si 5.0 fore 486 motherboard
>486-25 about 54
>486-33 about 72

Really, whose 486 is that on.  The numbers I quoted were "out of the box."
I haven't begun to tweak the various chipset parameters yet to see if I
could squeeze higher numbers out.  Anyone got the Landmark test that's
willing to uuencode it and mail it to me, or point me to an archive that's
got it?

I'm already pleased that my dhrystone benchmark gets 26000 dhrystones out 
of my 486, which is a lot better than the 23000 dhrystones that the same 
benchmark gets on my Sun 4/330 at work.

-- 
Kaleb Keithley                      Jet Propulsion Labs
kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

causing trouble again.