9 Jul
2014
9 Jul
'14
8:50 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Derrick Meury once stated:
well your right but what i would like to do is have a
killer dos machine
and be able to have it run anything that was made for dos or any current
home brew dos program. also i would like it to have all the ports in use
with all kinds of cards like scsi, networking, video, sound, joystick,
serial etc.. also want it with both size floppy drives, hard drive and a
dat or some form of tape drive and maybe cd rom if i had to have it
All I can say is good luck getting all the hardware to play nicely
together. I recall the fun times [1] I had in getting three network cards
to work in a PC [2], due to IRQ conflicts [3].
-spc (Who still remembers too much MS-DOS arcana for his liking)
[1] In the same was as going to the dentist is a "fun time".
[2] A 486 class machine, used as a router/firewall for the home network
about a decade back.
[3] Oh yes, you can't share IRQs on a PC with ISA slots. [4]
[4] All to save about 5c per PC IBM sold.