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echo: locuser
to: Rod Speed
from: Bill Grimsley
date: 1996-05-19 10:19:18
subject: computer upgrade

Rod, at 10:03 on May 17 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

PE> I bought a motherboard with Cyrix-100 chip on it for $460,
PE> and a Tseng Lab ET4000/W32P PCI video card (1 meg) for $109.

BG> The video card was cheap, but if the Cyrix is a 486-class chip,

RS> He's talking about their 686 in a pentium class motherboard.

Yeah, he's since expanded upon that.  Cyrix-100 tells me nothing.

BG> $460 is about what I'd expect to pay for a Triton board with a P90 fitted!

RS> And since its a pentium class motherboard/cpu, thats not surprising.

Indeed it's not.  :)

Regards, Bill

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