> The only 'xt-type machine I have kept since the "old days" when such things
> were common, is a "Challenger" motherboard (made ??? but sold through an
> outfit in Boston) which was a 10MHz '186 as the processor in the 'XT
> architecture. It had some 16-bit slots, though I never checked them out for
> functionality, since there were few devices suitable for that.
>
> Since the integrated peripherals could be relocated to an "out of the way"
> location that was almost the first thing that happened in the ROM code.
> I've held onto one just in case I ever needed to develop something for a
> '186 again. That and the '188 and the NEC V-40 and V-50 were my favorites
> of the time. I liked those built-in memory selects that allowed you to
> build a system with almost no glue logic.
Jep, thy have been quite versitale...
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Received on Wed Aug 04 1999 - 13:31:45 BST