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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (123740)	9/11/2000 11:00:19 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572171

Re: Everex has been selling through Best Buy for years. As a company they have been around since the eighties... I remember working with the Everex "Step" 386-20 when it was the hottest PC made. It had a little LED display on the front of the case behind a translucent door. The "step" referred to cache providing stepped up memory acces, which was pretty much unavailable from any other manufacturer of the time. Getting SCO UNIX to run on one required that the memory controller IC be replaced - I'm not sure what was wrong with the standard controller, but Everex FEDEX'd new RAM controller chips to us after we told them we were using the system for UNIX, and were having problems. The systems ran extended DOS without problems (By the way, diagnosing the problem required repeatedly loading the OS off of 55 floppy disks, only to see the install fail on restarting the machine - a real pain) Everex was too expensive for the market after cache became a commodity item and they couldn't differentiate themselves, they slowly declined and eventually entered bankruptcy and the name was purchased by the same holding company that controls FIC and VIA. I don't recall having seen an Everex machine in a Best Buy until I saw that 1GHZ Athlon system today - but I may have just been overlooking them. Regards, Dan