OT, but info needed: RAM uprade

Having a pin compatible processor with lower speed and lower cost is an invitation to one of the worst kinds of disaster. People will buy the cheap one, and put it into a machine at the higher speed, claiming "it works just fine". Then later, when it DOES start acting up, the same people will talk about how crummy the processors are! YES, that DOES happen. Somebody recently gave me a "lousy" 32MHz 386 motherboard because it was "unreliable". Under the glued on heat sink was a 20 MHz chip. That appears to have been the sole problem. For my own round as "devil's advocate": On the first motherboard of the AT, people found that they could speed it up by changing the crystal. On the next revision, IBM purportedly added code to the ROM that would cause the machine to refuse to run if the clock speed had changed. Everyone put down IBM for that. I think that what they did was NECESSARY. Without doing that, the very same people who would up the clock speed would also bad-mouth IBM for making unreliable computers when it wouldn't work reliably, FORGETTING or IGNORING the fact that THEY were responsible for running the board at a speed higher than it was designed or spec'ed for. OTOH, I would have loved to see a version of the 386SX that would have been drop in compatible with a 286. Kensington made some (tiny board with SX and some minor circuitry), but they were rather expensive at the time. -- Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com 2210 Sixth St. (510) 644-9366 Berkeley, CA 94710-2219