13 Dec
2001
13 Dec
'01
7:40 a.m.
On December 12, Richard Erlacher wrote:
I bought a CGA-compatible video cards a few years back
(80s), that had an incompatible hi-res mode in addition
to the CGA, and a mouse interface.
The manual kept referring to "the connector of the ten ways".
This sounded *SO* Zen that I was sure than once I had it
figured it, it'd be the secret to life.
Finally dawned on me that this was "10-pin connector".
-dq
If it topped out at 7 MBps, it was probably
because the bus handshake was
clocked with a CPU clock, in order to ensure the CPU would "see" the
transitions.
I am reminded of my favorite piece of broken english, found in a
Taiwanese PeeCee motherboard manual many years ago:
"If use 387 coprocessor, the clocked by CPU clock."
No, I made no typos there. :-)