Heck yes!
I was envolved in the development of a 386SX-16 motherboard that
used no VLSI chipset.
It did use a large number of GAL's however. It drew an absurd ammount
of power compared to any chipset on the market back then, but it also
outperformed all of them, due to a decent 2-way cache design.
NEC produced and sold this motherboard. I was given one of the later
prototypes, and use it as my PC for a time. Then it hung on my wall as
a trophy for a time, and then was shipped overseas to my Father in law, and
he ran it for a long time. I'd asked that it be returned when it was
obsolete
by overseas standards, but alas it was lost.
But never the less, not all 386 motherboards used VLSI chipsets.
SHAUN RIPLEY wrote:
>I talked with my friend the other day and he claimed
>that 386 motherboards all used this or that chip sets;
>But I vaguely remember I might once have such a 386.
>It had a 287 math coprocessor and some memory chips on
>board. What I can remember is that it had many logic
>chips on board but I can't recall whether it had chip
>sets or not. Unluckly I dumped it years ago... Could
>somebody give me an answer?
>
>vax, 3900
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Received on Fri Apr 30 2004 - 18:25:52 BST