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- From: hardgrov@pilot.njin.net (Roy Hardgrove)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: The Best system!
- Message-ID: <Dec.15.09.42.50.1992.5221@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 14:42:51 GMT
- References: <Dec.11.13.46.41.1992.8023@pilot.njin.net> <1gavn0INNhpj@savoy.cc.williams.edu> <CARL.92Dec14115924@atlantis.Cayman.COM>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- In my original post, I wrote [the multiboard]
- >>>reaches the best new solution: The DX2-100 will be readily
- >>>installable on the multiboard since it is configured to handle the
- >>>Intel 486DX-50 chip.
-
- and a reply offered the following:
- >>There won't be a DX2-100. Too hot. Forget 50Mhz motherboards, you
- >>don't need them. Go directly to 66-DX2 with a 33Mhz board.
-
- Carl at cayman.com responds:
- >Then why is IBM going to produce a DX3 - 99 mhz internal and 33 mhz
- >external??? Blanket statements like "Too hot" are misleading. A more
- >accurate statement is "Too hot with the current design".
-
- >-Carl-
-
-
- Thank you for addressing a point that I felt was tacit in my orignal
- post. It is true that at present, the DX2-100 is not able to be
- implemented. It is also true, as you have pointed out, that the quest
- for speed will always be a consuming part of the micro business. The
- exploration of a DX3-99 chip by the IBM group should abolish in
- everyones mind the infeasibility due to current constraints: heat,
- FCC, etc. I remember when everyone thought the 486-50 would never
- make to the desktop without an "ice cap". Yet here we are in the day
- when you can procure the DX2-66! The impossibility of a current
- concept is not transcendant with respect to time, so long as there are
- people of vision and character, possessing the committment and
- fortitude to manifest their genius on the world.
-
- Merry Christmas,
-
-
- Roy F. Hardgrove
- -----------------
- "Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government
- wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? or
- declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?"
- -Henry David Thoreau
- "A Plea for Captain John Brown"
-