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Re: Locate 386DX33/40 Motherboards

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From: Gregory Youngblood
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:53
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ddb@terrabit.FIDONET.ORG (David Dyer-bennet) writes:

>  JK> Also, for the $14 difference, is the DX40 a good buy even though
>  JK> it is a non-Intel CPU?  Are there any problems in running some
>  JK> software on the DX40?
> 
> It has a good reputation so far as I know.  Actually I feel sort of
> good *because* it's a non-Intel CPU, but that's just me being
> perverse. 
> 
> I've had a 386/40 for about a week now; it's running qemm and
> lantastic and desqview and parts of my bbs without a glitch, but I
> haven't tried windows on it.

Try OS/2 2.0 on it.  :)  Does quite nicely.  Actually I'm running an AMD 386
33 on my system... another non-intel system.  it runs' os/2 flawlessly for 
me.

Greg

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From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
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Subject: Re: Locate 386DX33/40 Motherboards
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