8 Mar
2013
8 Mar
'13
1:04 p.m.
I decided that way because that price beat Ciarcia
Circuit
Cellar's price for a *kit* for an 8086 SBC,
"Micromint SB180??"?
(PC compatible 9 slot)
I built one of those. Don't remember the exact name (MPX-16 from later
posts), but pretty
sure that's the system!
Yes, Micromint MPX-16 is, indeed the one. Sorry about the misteak with
"SB180" name - that misteak certainly created some confusion.
Fred, you are positively the Man; that is
totally awesome! How did the board work out?
Naah, I was just fooling around.
I got mine late as somebody else's abandoned project. As such, by the
time that I completed it, it was pretty obsolete, and I never did anything
serious with it. I got a second machine, and had the keyboard card, so I
was running it with CGA and keyboard, which was pretty compatible. I ran
PC-WRITE on that setup, but never ran anything other than MASM and
DeSmet C on the terminal based machine. For my serious XenoSoft work, I
had to be somewhat fanatical about compatability. XenoPhobe had been the
result of a slip on that!
love the Mac. I did get a Rainbow 100B years later,
A 100B years later, a Rainbow would be a MAJOR rarity! :-)
so I got as much
of MS-DOS (3.10b) as I wanted. Decided I liked CP/M 80/86 better, and
the Rainbow did that too.
2.11 and 3.31 had the most customizations.
3.10 was first with the Network redirector that permitted MSCDEX for
CD-ROMs,
And 3.31 was the first to understand >32M drives.
But, MY favorite was always 6.2x - the first, and only?, version whose
main development goal was to improve reliability. (fixing "problems with
compression" which were actually SMARTDRV misconfiguration issues, and
finally making a serious attempt to catch up with bug reports)
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com