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In article <1992Aug4.142657.2975@tc.cornell.edu> chow@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christopher Chow) writes:

>I'd go for the 486SX-25, because as long as the 486SX is socketed, or if 
>there is a 487 socket, you can later plug in a 486DX2-50 or an equivalent
>"Overdrive" processor and seriously upgrade the machine. (Of course, this
>assumes that the BIOS was properly written and did not contain any 
>timing loops which would be messed up by a clock doubling chip.)


Hmmmm

Does _anyone_ have pricing for the "overdrive" chip? Note that this
isn't the same as an OEM 486DX2/50. The pinouts are different. It 
might even be cheaper just to yank the motherboard and plug in a real
486DX2/50 motherboard just due to the pricing differential. 

I don't see why some enterprising motherboard manufacturer doesn't 
simply design a 486SX/25 motherboard that just took a real OEM 
486DX2/50 chip, or to make it "legal", a module carrying the chip.
That way one gets aroung Intel's pricing structure.




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