5 Feb
2007
5 Feb
'07
8:47 p.m.
Roger Merchberger wrote:
The last two - the HX & EX, were all-in-one units
with the keyboard
built-into the system unit, one floppy, minimal and specialized
expansion - maybe those didn't have DMA???
Internally they had DMA as well (there were hard drive expansions for
them at some point).
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of the PCjr, which has the distinction
of being the only IBM PC compatible that is *slower* than the original
machine due to slow RAM (first 128K) and lack of DMA. Later upgrades
added faster RAM and DMA, but on stock delivery, it was slower.
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