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- From: hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Abreviations in PC World
- Message-ID: <711484403.F00007@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au>
- Date: 18 Jul 92 05:09:06 GMT
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- Hello Aovai!
-
- Thursday July 02 1992 00:22, Aovai (aovai@qube.ocunix.on.ca) wrote to All:
-
- A> I am quite green in th worl of Personal Computer. I would like to
- A> know the meanings of the following words:
- A> . XT, AT, SX and DX
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- XT: eXtended Technology
- old, but good. I've still got one here :-)
-
- AT: Advanced Technology
- less old, but even better. My best machine is one of those :-)
-
- SX: isn't that an abbreviation of SuX? :-)
- DX: no idea.
-
- A> is there difference between, for example, 386SX 25 and 386/25 ?
-
- The SX only has a 16 bit data bus, though it does run 32 bit internally. You
- can't use 32 bit cards (ie memory cards etc) in a 386SX. The SX will also run
- slower. Eg a friend's 386SX 16 runs not much faster at all than my 286 12.
-
-
- Regards,
- Hamish
-
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