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- From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
- Subject: Re: Will Windows crawl on my system?
- Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:20:56 GMT
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- In article <1ho95uINNfb7@hpscit.sc.hp.com> matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm) writes:
- >I know AMD released a 20Mhz version of the 286, but a 25Mhz!?
- >Is that a new release?
- >
- >For a while I ran windows on my 286-12 just fine. Switching
- >back and forth between DOS and windows was a killer, though...
-
- 286-20's have been available since the summer of 1989. I have watched the
- trend of the dissapearing 286 as advertised by vendors in computer shopper.
- Many of those vendors chose to cut their 286 supply at 12 or 16 mhz, and
- some (at least half) have dropped 286's altogether, but it's been a slow
- trend. I think it's obvious that they'd rather sell 386's because they
- make more money on it. Of the vendors that sell 286 motherboards, maybe
- 25% sell 20 mhz boards, and maybe 5% sell 25 mhz boards. I've never seen
- any of those vendors sell a 286-25 SYSTEM, and certainly have never seen
- any local computer stores sell a 286-25 system either. My thinking is
- that a 286-25 system would conflict power-price wise in a computer store's
- computer lineup, so they chose to not carry it in favor with slower 386-sx's.
-
- Oh, my 286-25 is about 1.5-2 years old, and it has a Harris 286-25
- chip. Now why nobody makes (or made) faster 286's with caching, I'll
- never know, but IMHO it's not because they wouldn't have been a good
- alternative to the 386's of the day.
-