From: Chad Fernandez <fernande AT internet1 DOT net>
Message-Id: <199810210653.CAA24989@internet1.net>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 03:03:25 -0600
X-EveryThing: Net-Tamer 1.09.3 Unregistered
Subject: Re: GEM GUI
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

   >>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



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