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First post, by brassicGamer

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While it's safe to assume that all systems with CPU frequency >8MHz used an asynchronous bus, I would think there was a time during the 8MHz era where OEMs had to weigh up the advantages of using synchronous or asynchrous, leading to a mixture of products that either were or weren't.

I have very little hands-on experience with AT-era hardware, but I'm curious to know if there's any way of working out when the first asynchronous board was introduced. I imagine a window of time is probably the best I can hope for. Any thoughts?

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Reply 1 of 1, by Horun

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yeah....The 10Mhz 286/10Mhz Turbo XT era started async AFAIK, can't have stability on a 10Mhz ISA bus back then.

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