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My 386SX 33mhz SMT was in a Victor 300SX which is a rebadge of the Tandy 1000 RSX that had the SMT 25mhz SX. Victor was sold by McDuff's, a subsidiary of Radio Shack.

It barely ran the Doom demo but it did run. I ran OS/2 2.1 For Windows on it too at one point but eventually I build a home built Cyrix 486 DX40 that ran OS/2 Warp and Dos games like Doom at blistering speed.

You couldn't run OS/2 2.1 on a 286 at all back then.

I think the biggest issue of the 386SX was the data bus but I enjoyed my time with it. It is a bear to get modern storage to work with my Victor where as I see people with 286s on YT adding all sorts of modern goodies custom made for classic computers. It makes no sense why my Radioshack motherboard has problems with new modern tech and the 286s that I have seen don't but it may be due to bios issues. Atleast I had upgraded my 107mb hard disk in the Victor to a Maxtor 540mb drive and it worked with the software Maxtor had iirc though I lost the ability to play games if I was using MSDos at the time because it took too much HiMem.

Those were the days. I really was stretched trying to get things running on that 386SX other than productivity software for Highschool...

PS... My Highschool had IBM PS/2 Model 30's and 40's with Microchannel buses. So we couldn't sneak upgrading our PC lab computers with Joystick boards. At least we could learn Turbo Pascal.