sad sad sad

[Peter L. Peres]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Robert Brockway wrote:

> > not very likely, many boards back then weren't even socketed.  sx's were a
> > great value for the price.
>
> Hehehe :)  How were the 286s afixed to the board?  Not anything as crude
> as solder I hope :)  Thinking back they seemed to be as integrated as any
> other component (the 386SX board I had for a while certainly was).

The original 286 was always socketed. Only 386SX boards (of the kind I
have) have them soldered on board directly and some have a socket for a
287 fpu. The low cost 386SXs were all smd soldered on board (SMD chip)
and most were from AMD.  Only 386DX came in ceramic pga or soldered (also
SMD).

Peter
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