On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Jim Brain <brain at jbrain.com> wrote:
On 4/22/2016 11:02 AM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
I wrote a somewhat long post a while ago on why
we?re still stuck with
various timing artifacts due to the original PC?s choice to use an NTSC
color burst crystal as the main crystal for the PC. TTFN - Guy
Link?
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I know Jon (Glitch works) has an S-100 card with this IBM square RAM. I
saw it at VCF East the other weekend.
Anyway, I seem to recall that an S-100 system was used to actually test and
port the original IBM DOS 1.0 for 5 1/4" for the new IBM system.
I have a copy of a MS or IBM DOS for my CompuPro on 8" disk, I think it's
v. 1.25. I also have a copy of 1.25 on my CBM 256x, with 8086
co-processor. Neither of these were BEFORE the original IBM PC, but hint
at a time when there was a "DOS" in development floating around before the
actual IBM system. This DOS could have been demoed in Europe on an S-100.
lots of conjecture here. Just speculating.
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