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Date:      Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:04:06 -0700
From:      "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
To:        "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua>
Cc:        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cyrix and AMD chips 
Message-ID:  <199606210804.BAA01537@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 21 Jun 96 10:55:44 %2B0300. <199606210755.KAA27015@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> 

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>	Just a minor addition for interested people:
>	a brand new Taiwanese SiS 496/7
>	PCI 486 mainboard with full AMD 5x133 support costs (street)
>	around $80 even here.  So it might be better to dump
>	an old MB and simply get a new one, instead of looking
>	for VR device. 

Unless you have a 486 EISA motherboard, that you payed $300 for two
years ago, with three EISA cards, and sixteen 30-pin SIMM sockets,
almost all full. :-)

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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