[rescue] Blades in the dark

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 07:52:05PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   Yes, it was that bad.  The original design was FULL of stupid
> limitations that prove the designers never had any sort of growth in
> mind for the platform.  Witness the A20 barrier, the ridiculous
> I-can-only-boot-from-C:-or-A: stupidity, the unbelievably stupid video
> subsystem design, etc.  And don't even get me started on the CGA in
> particular, with its big fuzzy nowhere-near-square pixels and
> video memory mapped right smack in the middle of the low address
> space.  *grumble*
>   It's a terrible design that should never have made it out of the
> playroom of the idiots who put it together.

I read an article recently that said the basic motherboard design, etc,
was "lifted" from the Datamaster, their failed precursor.  A LOT of the
original PC design was re-used stuff.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX