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- From: frederic@cs.unc.edu (Eric Fredericksen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Q's about Gateway 66 Mhz DX2 system
- Keywords: several questions
- Message-ID: <14986@borg.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 19:56:31 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.unc.edu
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- I am considering buying one of the new Gateway 2000 66 MHz (DX2) systems,
- but I have several questions.
-
- Is Intel shipping 486Dx2 66 MHz chips in quantity yet? If not, how soon
- might that happen? Gateway says that they are wating for a shipment and
- give a 5-6 week lead time on delivery.
-
- What kind of time frame are we looking at for 16 Mb RAM chips to be shipping
- in quantity? The system comes with some new Micronics (sp?) motherboard with
- 4 SIMM slots. You begin with 4Mx9 and can mix in 16Mx9. But until the 16Mx9
- SIMMS are available, you can't go above 16 Mb on the motherboard.
-
- The system is to include a Western Digital 340 Mb disk (I don't have the
- model number) that is supposed to be a brand-spanking new model that works
- on the local bus of the system. How might this affect UNIX (actually, a
- GNU version called Linux) compatibility ? (drivers, etc)
-
- The salesmen said that the system would come with a video card called the
- ATI New Generation card. Is this an ATI Ultra+ that I have been hearing about?
- It is also supposed to be on the local bus.
-
- Thanks in advance.
- Eric
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