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- From: iisakkil@snakemail.hut.fi (Mika Iisakkila)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 486SXs as Unix Iron?
- Message-ID: <IISAKKIL.92Nov5165149@lk-hp-10.hut.fi>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 14:51:49 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: root@sanger.chem.nd.edu's message of 3 Nov 92 17:22:29 GMT
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- root@sanger.chem.nd.edu (Doctor Math) writes:
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- >Intel, in their infinite wisdom, made the 487SX and 486DX physically
- >incompatible, so you can't just plug the cheaper part into the faster board.
-
- ...unless you get a motherboard which allows 486SX, 486DX or 487SX all
- in the same socket (not simultaneously, silly). In my motherboard it
- takes 3 jumpers to configure the CPU type. Big deal. It is
- manufactured by MG (no, I'd never heard of them either, but it says
- "the most famous in the world" on the box...). Can accomodate anything
- up to 486DX-50.
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