24 Jan
2012
24 Jan
'12
5:11 p.m.
On 24 Jan 2012 at 7:33, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
> If I set up an XT now, I'm not sure what
I'd do with it beyond demo
> 8-bit games. I don't think I have the patience to noodle around on
> a DOS box under a 386-DX/25 anymore (too many hours at work on a
> 386-SX/16 in the mid-1990s, I'd say).
Fit it with a solid-state hard drive and it's not too bad. There a
few bits of equipment that I own (e.g. PROM programmers, special disk
(e.g. Matchpoint) that require the slow speeds of these CPUs owing to
their CPU timing loops. So I keep a couple of clones in good
operating condition.
--Chuck