Mail Archives: opendos/1998/10/21/03:05:48
>>I didn't realize that the 8088 and the 8086 were that much
>>different. What kind of computers were the 8086's installed in?
>>Will an 8088 replace an 8088 in an XT or PC with any advantages?
>The 8086 appeared before the 8088. The 8086 was quite expensive, as
>well as the surrounding hardware (controllers, MMU, gates, e The
>8088 is a 8086, but it communicates with the outside through a 8
>bits wide path, which makes it slightly slower. In fact, it I don't
>>think you can consider the 8086 for a 8088 replacement, because,
>>AFAIK, the pinouts were different, and the advantage wo
I remember reading about the 8086 being more expensive. What was it that
you were saying about "the advantage wo....." , the end seems to have cut
off.
>>It would
>>be nice if they had a driver fro my Diamond video card for 16M
>colors :-) I found a generic 256 color driver and it didn't seem
>to change anything.
>Which Diamond ? If it is recent (Stealth 64 and
>later), NDO can provide a way to display 16M colors using the VESA
>standard (whi The 256 color driver does not change anything in the
>Destop colors, but it gives you the ability to display more colors,
>in a pi bye.
In this computer it is a Diamond SpeedStar Pro, which is an older ISA card.
It is VESA compliant, and has 1meg of memory.
Chad A. Fernandez
Battle Creek, MI
A computer without microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
Net-Tamer V 1.09.2 - Test Drive
- Raw text -