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- From: bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning)
- Subject: Re: AMD386 vs. Intel386 & external cache problems
- Organization: Wimsey
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 04:13:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.041326.10869@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1992Aug12.190649.7668@athena.mit.edu> <1992Aug14.084810.20876@news.th-darmstadt.de>
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- In article <1992Aug14.084810.20876@news.th-darmstadt.de> herr@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Gabor Herr) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug12.190649.7668@athena.mit.edu>, tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
- >
- >...
- >
- >> Well, have a AMD 386 40 MHz motherboard, ETEQ chipset, 128k cache, 16 MB
- >> memory --- and I haven't had any problems at all. Perhaps your board
- >> was just defective; did you try asking your dealer to swap your
- >> motherboard for another one with the same configuration?
- >>
- >> - Ted
- >
- >How do you explain the same errors on two completely different mainboards? The
- >boards I tested had only one common factor: the AMD 386.
- >
- >Gabor
- >
- >
- >############################################################################
- >Gabor Herr Email: herr@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
- >Computer Science Department
- >Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
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- I am also running Linux quite succesfully (along with OS/2 2.0) on an Opti
- motherboard (AMD386/40, 64k cache, Opti chipset).
-