rmay635703 wrote on 2025-11-16, 04:20:

Funny how the worst pentium motherboard in the history of mankind Came from AIR […]
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Anonymous Coward wrote on 2017-04-29, 00:57:

For PCI boards, I would think the Asus PVI-486SP3, the Biostar MB-8433UUD and Chaintech 486SPM should all be on the list. There […]
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For PCI boards, I would think the Asus PVI-486SP3, the Biostar MB-8433UUD and Chaintech 486SPM should all be on the list.
There are lots of good VLB boards. The Asus Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4, Aopen VI15G and possibly ECS Elitegroup UM4980.
For EISA boards. I would say the AIR 486EI, Nice SuperEISA and AMI Enterprise III and IV.

PC chips would not be anywhere on my list.

Funny how the worst pentium motherboard in the history of mankind Came from AIR

while you claim the AIR 486EI being one of the best.

Could never figure out where random and very strange “hybrid” motherboards came from here in the US then noticed this.

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“Advanced Integration Research” - Designed in the USA, considering I’ve had very old ISA devices fcc to micromax and strange motherboards as AIR, I always figured some Taiwanese knockoff but I never figured they actually came from a US based business I always found in the computer shopper as being the place that was on the more expensive side with really wierd names for the products and strange configurations.

Now it makes me disappointed there isn’t a historical overview online for the Micromax/AIR companies as had been made for more famous places like Compaq

I only claimed the 486EI was one of the best EISA based 486 boards. It was a server class board widely used by OEMs and has a solid reputation.
It wouldn't surprise me if A.I.R. made a few stinkers. Even AMI made a few. To be fair, most of the early Pentium boards were crap, especially if they had VLB and PCI on the same board.