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Unknown_K
Joined: 22 Apr 2007
Posts: 264
Location: Ohio/USA
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Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:49 am |
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What was the fastest 286 motherboard made? I have a lead on a 286/20 with (4) 30 pin SIMM slot, was wondering if anybody made one faster. |
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386er
Joined: 27 Jan 2007
Posts: 274
Location: USA
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Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:20 am |
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i realy can remember but i thought there were 25mhz 286s i could be wrong |
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Unknown_K
Joined: 22 Apr 2007
Posts: 264
Location: Ohio/USA
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Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:32 am |
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How speedy is a 286/20 anyway. Would it run Win 3.0 well (or 3.1)? |
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Anonymous Coward
Joined: 20 Nov 2004
Posts: 589
Location: Shandong, China
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Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:09 am |
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The fastest is probably either a 25MHz 286, or a 20MHz 286 with SRAM cache memory (yes a few do exist) |
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T-R-A
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Posts: 594
Location: Western NC
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Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:27 pm |
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Best as I recall, they did top out @ 25MHz (apparently verified by: this---at the bottom of the page) |
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Anonymous Coward
Joined: 20 Nov 2004
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Location: Shandong, China
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Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:24 pm |
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Supposedly 33MHz parts were planned by Harris, but it got scrapped at the last minute.
In my opinion the 286-20 is a pretty fast machine. I have such a motherboard, and it is quite usable in DOS and for Windows applications that do not require 386 mode. Later when I have more time and money, I would like to play around with it more. I have an extra "make it 486" chip that I plan to heatsink and try at 40MHz. Too bad mine doesn't have the Coprocessor. |
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T-R-A
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Posts: 594
Location: Western NC
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Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:39 pm |
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I had a 286-12 at one time (I know, not something to really brag about), and I remember how Win3.1 ran quite snappy on it (not having to deal with 386-Enhanced and all). I wonder how well the "make-it-486's" would work in my Compaq Portable II? (probably doesn't fit in DIP sockets...) |
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Erik
Joined: 28 Feb 2006
Posts: 127
Location: LI, NY
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Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:03 pm |
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ryan
Joined: 19 Apr 2006
Posts: 261
Location: WisConSin
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Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:05 pm |
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One of my friends got a 286-25mhz system from Kwiktrip where she worked, 4mb of 60ns ram and a 40mb hard drive. It loaded most windows software faster than the packard smell 486sx machines I had laying around. If I remember correctly it was a Unisys machine in a relatively small form factor.
Sadly they threw it away after it started hanging at post, at the time I figured there was no use in keeping a machine of that type. For the life of me I couldn't get it to do anything besides display the HEADSTART VGA blurbage at startup and there it hung, VGA was onboard as was most everything else, I couldn't get it to do anything even after resetting the bios. Come to think I believe it had a math coprocessor installed which at the time I thought was useless on a 286. |
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Anonymous Coward
Joined: 20 Nov 2004
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Location: Shandong, China
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Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:18 am |
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Make it 486 should work in a PGA socket without problems (if that's what you mean by "DIP"). Just buy a 70cent PLCC-->PGA adapter. I have one in my IBM AT and it works well. |
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T-R-A
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Posts: 594
Location: Western NC
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Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:23 am |
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DIP: Dual-Inline Package (but it actually is a PLCC---mistakenly I was looking at the 40-Pin FPU) |
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Anonymous Coward
Joined: 20 Nov 2004
Posts: 589
Location: Shandong, China
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Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:58 am |
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creepingnet
Joined: 19 Oct 2004
Posts: 138
Location: Lynnwood,WA
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Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:24 am |
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My old 10MHz is overclocked to 12 Mhz via a co-processor enable glitch (I put in a 80c287/12, and it works great, but according to most CPU utilities I've used it lists it as a 12 Mhz CPU). That thing FLIES in Windows 3.1 with full stereo sound and 256 colors, it runs better than my 386 SX did, and is pretty useable for web surfing save the slow load times due to the hard drive bottleneck. |
_________________ 84' Tandy 1000(a)
90' GEM Computer Products 286
12' Franken-486 |
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Anonymous Coward
Joined: 20 Nov 2004
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Location: Shandong, China
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Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:43 am |
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Creepingnet, I noticed that your XT II has a Soundblaster Pro II installed. Do those really work in 8-bit slots? |
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creepingnet
Joined: 19 Oct 2004
Posts: 138
Location: Lynnwood,WA
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Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:47 am |
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Anonymous Coward wrote: |
Creepingnet, I noticed that your XT II has a Soundblaster Pro II installed. Do those really work in 8-bit slots? |
Amazingly yes it does. The 16 bit end hangs off though, and I think when in 8-bit mode, the CD-ROM controller is disabled. It works great otherwise though, I use it for making Midi files once in awhile, that and running the XT through a guitar effects processor to use the FM synth as a regular synthesizer.
Actually, at least 75% of the cards in the machine are 16 bit......
EGA/VGA Adapter = 16 bit = OTI 256K VGA/EGA Dual Card
SoundBlaster = 16 bit = SoundBlaster Pro II
Hayes Modem = 8-bit = 2400 Baud? Internal Modem
Microsoft Bus Mouse card = 8-bit = Microsoft Bus Mouse, 2nd version
Ethernet Adapter = 16-bit = DLink Etherlink II/16 TP
SCSI Adapter = 8-bit = Advanced Information Concepts Int/Ext SCSI
Floppy Controller = 16-bit = Goldstar IDE/FDD Controller, IDE Disabled
Last Slot = Open, might be incompatible with some cards = nothing |
_________________ 84' Tandy 1000(a)
90' GEM Computer Products 286
12' Franken-486 |
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