80386 motherboards

[James O'Connor]

In article <379 at mplex.UUCP>, fff at mplex.UUCP (Fred Fierling) writes:
> I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has had experience running Xenix on
> a Jameco JE3520 80386 AT motherboard replacement (20 MHz, no cache).  Things
> like:
> 
> - does it work with Xenix?
> - documentation any good?
> - quality of construction?
> - vendor support?

We use many of the motherboards sold by Jameco.  I don't have my catalog
handy, but I can describe them.  They are all manufactured by American
Megatrends, Incorporated, who also supplies a lot of 386 BIOS systems.
We have in our company 2 16-MHz with cache, one 20 MHz without cache, and 2
33-MHz with cache.  All three boards run Xenix and Unix just fine, although
the caching boards loose access to a little bit (128k, I think) due to the
"Shadow BIOS" feature.  I think the 20MHz no cache board actually lets Xenix
see all the RAM.

The first 33MHz board we bought has been a little flaky lately, but the one
we just bought (installed last Saturday, 4/7) had a newer BIOS revision
(which is even nicer the older version, which already included built-in
setup and diagnostic routines) and it seems to be working just great.

The only real trouble I've had with any of these boards is getting a Bell
Tech ACE serial port board to work with the 33MHz motherboard, but I think
the real trouble is that the ACE board is damaged.  Everything else works
great, and everything else includes SCSI adapters, Ethernet boards, and
all kinds of serial ports.

I recommend the AMI boards highly.
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