[pchelpers] Re: question please

The motherboard was a pci one with an amd 5x86 processor.  These were a 486
pinout but 5x86 core - nearly a pentium - with p75 performance when running
at 133 meg.  The motherboard had a 40 meg clock link so you could overclock
to 160 meg.  This gave P100 performance.
It used to have a 486-100 chip in it until I got the 5x86 chip.  It was a
good machine and I've still got one lying around somewhere.

However, the modem was a Lucent pci win modem and it worked a helluva lot
better than the 56k Brightcom external with a rockwell chipset that I'm
using to send this!

>
> Whatever the modem was, it was unlikely to have been a software driven
> winmodem. They are PCI cards and require a minimum of a pentium 150 to
> work. Can't remember seeing any 486 machines with PCI slots (although
> there may have been some). There were, however some ISA type internal
> modems that were very well made and were hardware driven. These would be
> the equal of any external modem at the same speed.
>
> Are you sure the external one you had wasn't a 33.6k model or even a
> 28.8k?
>
> Nigel wrote:
> >
> > The old Lucent winmodem I used to have in my 486-100 ALWAYS gave me
> > better
> > download speed than the poxy external one I am now using on my modern
> > computer!  Apart from portability, I would prefer an internal one.
> >



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