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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.201356.8142@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 20:13:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan01.205952.10674@omen.UUCP>, caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
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- | Not so long ago I went thru several motherboards in search of
- | one that operated properly with more than 16MB main memory. I
- | never found an ISA board that would pass a through memory test
- | program, let alone Unix under load.
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- I have been using AIR for 486, and some $175 386-40 boards, both of
- which run SCO, Dell, etc flawlessly. I have several home and about half
- a dozen at work, and have sold a number of complete systems with the
- AIR, so I'm confident that I'm not just lucky. I run 256k cache on the
- 486, 64 on the 386.
-
- I haven't had any problems with Micronics or AMI boards in ISA,
- although I'm told that some revisions of Micronics had problems.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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