On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 06:26:43PM -0500, Cary O'Brien wrote:
> are usualy alerted to this by chip manufactures -- the chip mfgrs will
> announce well ahead of time that a chip is going out of production, but
> the board mfgr may not pass this along.
Only solution is to check with the manufacturer yourself. Or roll your
own board. An interesting tidbit here is that some of the Intel commodity
hardware gets adopted as "embedded" stuff and may still be available
through regular channels.
Interesting, though- I just tried the Intel product selector at:
http://apps.intel.com/product_selector/index.asp
and it returns 16MHz 386s at the low end of the scale, if you choose
"embedded processors". Perhaps that means their old stuff is still
available? I think so- searching Pioneer electronics' web site
( http://www.ied.pios.com/ ) with "80386" and "80486" still shows at least
a dozen part numbers *in stock*. Have to call an Intel rep to be sure
though.
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