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- From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Gateway 4DX2-66V & -66E Queries
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:33:29 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- Message-ID: <1k91spINNhp3@crcnis1.unl.edu>
- References: <1993Jan19.155636.4442@cs.sandia.gov>
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- rbsmith@sandia.gov (Randall B Smith) writes:
-
- >Is the serial-i/o implemented with a 16550 style UART (one
- >that contains 16-word fifos)?
-
- My EISA one does not have a 16550 UART
-
- >How many pins are in the CPU expansion socket (169, 238 or xxx)?
- >I am curious about support for the Pentium Overdrive chip.
-
- My EISA motherboard has only a socket for a Weitek chip, no overdrive, no
- pentium.
-
- >Specific to 66E:
-
- > Is the SCSI interface on a local bus?
-
- No it's on the EISA Bus. There is no local bus on the EISA machine.
-
- >Do both machines have a total of 4 simm sockets?
-
- The EISA has 8 SIMM sockets for 2,4, or 8MB simms (in pairs only)
-
- >What is the cost of a single 16MB simm upgrade?
-
- Who cares? it won't run on the EISA model. You need 2 8MB simms; but my
- question is.. why buy upgrades from Gateway? They are in the box business, not
- the chip business. Chips will probably be cheaper on the open market.
-
- Also, unless you are going to load the system down with either large-memory
- requirement scientific research programs, or lots of network software, 8MB is
- sufficient for running OS/2 with 4-5 DOS or windoze apps simultaneously. At
- work, I have 16MB memory, but I am running IBM's TCP/IP for OS/2 and will be
- adding the NEtware Requestor for OS/2 in the near future. That kind of loading
- requires lots of memory - the more the better. At home, without the networking
- stuff, 8MB is fine (OS/2 2.0 in both places).
-
-
- --
- chad
- price@helios.unl.edu
- cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
-