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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!zeos!jre
- From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
- Subject: Re: "p24t" upgrades
- Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:50:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.195058.16226@zeos.com>
- Keywords: upgrade, P5, P24t, Zeos
- References: <(none)> <360@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov> <22NOV199213305567@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu>
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- In article <22NOV199213305567@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu> jbc@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (CASSEL J BRIAN) writes:
- >In article <360@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov>, hwstock@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov (stockman harlan w) writes...
- >>Howdy--
- >>
- >>I'm considering getting a new 486 DX2/66, but I would like to be able to
- >>upgrade to the "P24t" -- the 32-bit bus version of the P5.
- >>
- >>Several companies (e.g., Zeos; possibly Northgate, Hyundai) offer 486's with
- >>ZIF sockets; at least with Zeos, the ZIF supposedly has an extra row of holes
- >>for the newer, larger P24t chip.
- >>
- >>Is this upgrade route just a marketing ploy? Has Intel given Zeos and others
- >>enough info to ensure that the P24t will actually function in the ZIF ...
- >>with/without major BIOS upgrades? Last year Zeos offered motherboards with
- >>"upgradable" processor modules, even for 486/33 systems. I now doubt they even
- >>offer a 486DX2/66 upgrade module.
- >>
- >>Opinions -- informed, rational or otherwise -- are welcomed.
- >
- >I sent email to Ken Germann at Zeos asking specifically if there was
- >any *guarantee* from Zeos about the compatibility of the p24t with
- >the zeos motherboard / socket and his reply was:
- >
- > "Zeos is advertising it. We have to support it. The p24t specs
- > haven't been made public yet."
-
- I would like to add something to Ken's statement. While we cannot comment on
- future products etc., the ZIF socket interface we use is designed by Intel
- themselves. So, while the P24T specs have not yet been released by Intel,
- they presumably know what they are.
-
- ---JRE---
-
-
-
- >
- >As you can see, no guarantee. So do you go with Zeos now, or wait
- >for others (Dell, Gateway, etc.) to come up with similar options
- >several months from now?
- >
- >And by the way, this is the best upgrade option I've seen to date,
- >since it takes me from a 32-bit machine to a 64-bit machine
- >without me choking on the original investment... but what are we
- >going to do with our 64-bit processors when we have them? Run
- >our 16- and 32-bit software really, really fast??
- >
- >Brian Cassel
- >jbc@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
- >======================== disclaimed as my own opinions.
- >
-
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