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https://www.ebay.com/itm/134134056694
Is that a discrete chipset?
Anybody know this board? Info?
If it is, that's really cool. I'd want schematics to build a hobby clone.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/134134056694
Is that a discrete chipset?
Anybody know this board? Info?
If it is, that's really cool. I'd want schematics to build a hobby clone.
Yes, I think so. Intel produced companion/support chips specially for the 80386 processor.
Similar to how it made them for the 8080 processor.
However, they're not especially designed to make an IBM PC/AT compatible PC in particular, even though they can be used for this purpose.
The 80386 rather was a "mainframe on a chip" and not designed as a PC processor.
Compaq was the company who made an AT PC on a 386 basis.
Which IBM didn't like, by the way.
Because, at the time (mid 80s), the PC/MS-DOS platform was seen as a dead end.
Processors like the Motorola 68000 or some RISC designs were seen as the future.
OS/2 also was beeing hyped, still, even though it was stil in its infancy.
Things like "family API" were made to ensure backwards compatibility with deprecated MS-DOS..
I know, this sounds strange, but in the mid/late 1980s,
MS-DOS was already was seen as obsolete before DOS 4/5/6 even existed.
In the early 1990s, such a mindset was unthinkable. Windows 3.0/DOS 5 were almost everywhere.
Edit: The othet ceramic chip might be an i82385 cache controller, not sure.
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a bunch of PAL/GAL chips
rasz_pl wrote on 2022-11-01, 15:31:a bunch of PAL/GAL chips
That'd be good for a DIY clone.