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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Upgradability question for INTEL staff
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.133711.1464@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 13:37:11 GMT
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- In article <183203@pyramid.pyramid.com>, atam@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (Alexander Tam) writes:
- | I bought a DECpc 433ST EISA system recently. As I know, the motherboard, CPU
- | module board and memory module board are made by Intel. My question is:
- |
- | Is it really possible to upgrade my 486 EISA to 586/P5 later by just
- | switching the CPU module board and putting more memory to the memory
- | module board?
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- I'm not from Intel, but I'll say that my contact there indicates that
- it could be done. Now, DEC is going to making their own PCs, or so they
- say, and may not offer the upgrade, or Intel may decide not to offer the
- upgrade board for marketing reasons.
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- I guess the answer is "it could be done, but it may not be."
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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