13 Nov
2005
13 Nov
'05
3:20 a.m.
[one-long-line formatting botch repaired manually -dM]
I am not sure if there were any 80386 motherboards
made with this
similar construction, but if there were, these are the boards I refer
to, that have largely disappeared, and are 'classic, servicible
forever' hardware, the kind the Tony likes.
I just had a look at the one 386 board I still have around. It's heavy
on the 74-series logic, but it has about 15 chips that I suspect of
being PALs. (I can't read the markings without removing sticky labels
with dot-matrix printing. But a few of the labels are applied slightly
off-centre one way or another, and what I can see is consistent with
part numbers beginning "PAL".) The board worked last time I tried to
use it, IIRC, which would have been within the last year or so.
Make of that what you will. :-)
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