Subj : Re: 286 is so cool!
To   : kirkspragg
From : Spectre
Date : Thu Apr 18 2024 12:15:00

 ki> Chipset & Bios settings seem to make quite a difference with the
 ki> performance from what I've observed. Got a couple of 16Mhz boards
 ki> and the performance differs quite a bit between them. My Headland
 ki> H10 based 16Mhz board performs pretty close to my 20Mhz board
 ki> probably because it can run the RAM with 0 wait states. The other
 ki> one is a SARC chipset based board and it is quite noticeably
 ki> slower...

I'd have to concur.. the other tid bit I have, is most of the 286 BIOS chips
apprear to be pretty interchangable.  I don't know SARC.. the most common we
saw was AWARD and might have been HEADLAND... ponder... more than once I
pulled bios from a board and just dropped in AWARD in its place.  YMMV of
course.

This one I had was running an award BIOS, with a NEAT chipset. I don't think
I ever saw another 286 with all the bells and whistles this one supported,
CLK variation, wait states, and so much I had no idea about back then, and
don't remember now :)

Spec


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