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ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes:

> I too was looking for a 386SX motherboard a couple of months ago, but was
> told repeatedly by different mail-order houses that due to short supply
> of the 386SX mb, they are only selling SX as a system.  One guy said
> that the big japanese firms are snatching up the SX mb's.  Does anyone 
> know if the SX mb is still in short supply and is the japanese thing
> true?
> 

I have heard that (in Canada at least, which is pretty similiar to the US) 
the shortage isn't as bad as it was a few months ago. About the Japanese 
buying up all the boards, from what I heard the problem is in Europe, where 
apparently they are paying much higher prices for the boards as PCs pick up 
in popularity.