5 Sep
2007
5 Sep
'07
4:32 p.m.
I also have an
8086 board for the XT. Of course the
benefit of that
processor over the 8088 was the 16 bit databus,
which sould be lost if
the thing had to do 8 bit accesses to memory. So
there's full 640K of
RAM on this board too. Of course it does use 8 bit
transfers to access
ROMs and peripherals. This is a full-length card,
again with a cable and
DIL plug to go in the 8088 socket.
Is it's intended to supplant or supplement the 8088?
Are you sure it just isn't a mpu board for some unit
w/a passive backplane? I don't mean to insult your
intelligence, just that it's a possibility.