386th post, everything i386 related
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So whats wrong with the 286???? 
Or Amstrad 1512 come to that (with 20mb hard drive I'll have you know)
On second thoughts, don't answer that, just the rumblings of someone who shouldn't remember such things, such as learning to write programs on paper tape and punch cards.
Or Amstrad 1512 come to that (with 20mb hard drive I'll have you know)
On second thoughts, don't answer that, just the rumblings of someone who shouldn't remember such things, such as learning to write programs on paper tape and punch cards.
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i think ive still got those somewhere.. plus MS works on floppy..
mmm dos games. i miss having to configure sound blaster settings before playing a game
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/
http://www.dosbox.com/
never had much exp. with 386 myself but I have had a few 486s. Had one 486 laptop that was just about good enough to play Duke Nukem, had a sound card and, I think, a 1 or 2MB graphics card.
I run a few games in dosbox, also Windows 3.1, a couple of old Mac OS emulators too. Never let go of the old days me...
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Actually the processor is a 20 MHz 80386 DX so the big daddy version...
My first PC had an 8086 processor and 8087 maths co-pro...
My first PC had an 8086 processor and 8087 maths co-pro...
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So whats wrong with the 286????
The i386 was the first one to have a real protected mode with a flat 32 bit address space, full paging support, IDT, GDT, LDT, privilege levels etc etc. I still use the Intel i386 data sheets when programming.
The 8086 was a traditional processor where any process could do anything it liked, the 80286 was a half way house. I liked MS-DOS, at least some versions of it. We were still selling a program that used the MS-DOS API (INT 21h, for any old-school assembly language programmers out there) until a few years ago and I still supply existing customers if they need things - had an order today in fact. It wont run properly on anything later than Windows Me because the NT kernel breaks a lot of the traditional interface.
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