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From: Ingeborg on 15 Jan 2008 06:26
wrote:

> This message was posted using an antique
> 66mhz 286 PC, running Microsoft Windows 3.1.

That's great! I didn't know a 286 had that much overclocking potential.
Since the fastest 286 ever sold was 25 MHz, this is an overclock of at
least 164%.

Or do you really mean milliherz when you write mhz? In that case, how long
does it take to boot this box?
From: Phisherman on 15 Jan 2008 09:01
I found I can upgrade Win98 PCs to Win2000 Pro without much trouble.
This upgrade allows NTFS and better performance. These machines make
good firewalls or servers.
From: philo on 20 Jan 2008 09:53

"Ingeborg" <a(a)b.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xns9A267E8725F91abinvalid(a)194.109.133.133...
> wrote:
>
>> This message was posted using an antique
>> 66mhz 286 PC, running Microsoft Windows 3.1.
>
> That's great! I didn't know a 286 had that much overclocking potential.
> Since the fastest 286 ever sold was 25 MHz, this is an overclock of at
> least 164%.
>
> Or do you really mean milliherz when you write mhz? In that case, how long
> does it take to boot this box?


He must mean a 486.

I think the 286's were just 8 -10 mhz

The fastest 386 I know of is an AMD-40mhz...
but a 66mhz 486 is common.(I think there was even a 486 overdrive cpu of 100
or 120mhz)


However...win3.1 will run just fine on a 286

and Windows 3.0 will work on an XT


From: Ingeborg on 21 Jan 2008 07:13
philo wrote:

> I think the 286's were just 8 -10 mhz

<http://www.cpu-collection.de/?tn=1&l0=cl&l1=80286&l2=Harris#CS80C286-25>

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