21 Nov
2002
21 Nov
'02
3:16 a.m.
Hi - somewhere around this mess of equipment in my office/computer room
(though i cant find it at the moment) i have a Wang 286 - not MCA - that
i upgraded long ago with an intel Above Board and and an Inboard 386 and
i seem to recall there being a connector that gave the Inboard 386
processor direct bus and memory acess to the Above Board instead of
having to go through the usually slower system bus - hope this bit of
info is correct and useful to you -billp
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 11:51 , chris wrote:
I have an MCA board here (probably pulled from a PS/2,
but I really am
not sure where it came from).
Its marked as an Intel Above Board MC. And currently has 8 30 pin SIMMS
on it (1 MB each it looks like). From what I can find, I think this is
just a normal above board memory expansion card (max 32 MB?)
However, there is also a 50 pin IDC connector on it. Is that for
connecting to a daughter card? I just want to confirm that fact, and
that
this isn't really some kind of a SCSI controller with a nice buffer on
it. I thought the Above Boards were just memory cards, but you never
know. (maybe if I could find something about them on Intel's site... but
their AboveBoards support section seems to have vanished)
-chris
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