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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:24:42 -0600 Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote: There seem to be a lot of books on the topic. I reference some of them on the project page. The one you cite should be added to the list. Tonight I am having my first real 'immersion' into gschem as a schematic capture program. And I am really impressed. It has a decent parts library and the parts are plaintext files so it's fairly easy to edit and add your own. I'm presently redrawing the Vesta SBC88A schematic as an exercize and will be re-entering the schematic for my 8088 SBC soon as well. There are some eye openers for me in the design of the SBC88A. I was of the impression that the 8088 had a rather fussy clock requirement that necessitated the 8284 chip (to arrive at a clock signal with the proper duty cycle). Vesta just uses the popular dual-inverter-and-crystal clock and feeds the signal from that right into the 8088 clock pin. One of the things I would like to 'design out' of my current design is the use of any 'special' chips except the 8088 cpu itself. 8284 chips are much rarer than the 8088 processor, and more expensive that it when you can find them. I hope 'vintage chip' designs like this are considered ontopic to the list.