sad sad sad

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Tue Oct 21 01:29:42 UTC 2003


Colin McGregor wrote:
> "James Knott" <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> on Monday, October 20, 2003 8:48 PM

>>Wasn't the reason for that, so that motherboard manufacturer could
>>quickly adapt a 286 motherboard to the new chip?
> 
> 
> More-or-less, yes. The '386SX internally was a 32 bit CPU, but it talked to
> the world as if it were a 16 bit chip (unlike the '386DX chip that was 32
> bits inside and out). This meant that many of the (by then) cheap support
> chips that had been developed for the '286 chips could be re-used in '386SX
> designs.
> 
> Me, I bought a '386SX-25  based box, and admittedly it didn't have the speed
> of the '386DX, but it did run Windows 3.1 and later Yggdrasil Linux  just
> fine.

My 3rd computer was a 386DX-33 & 4 MB.  I soon upgraded to 8 MB and 
later replace the motherboard with a 486DX2-66.  I ran OS/2 on that box 
for almost 10 years.  I still use the keyboard that came with it, with 
my Athlon XP 1700 system.

My 1st computer was an Imasi 8080, with an 8080 CPU and my 2nd was an XT 
clone, in which I replaced the 8088, with a V20.  I currently have 6 or 
so computers hanging around here.  All but one are on the network, 
though not all turned on.  My old 486 nee 386 is out in the breakfast 
nook (read junk storage area <g>).




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