Subj : Re: Using Dos Comms Software with Lantronix UDS-10
To   : AKAcastor
From : kirkspragg
Date : Wed Jun 05 2024 20:51:48

 AK>  k> I can only imagine how bad this would be on a 8088/NECV20 machine...
 AK> 
 AK> I have such fond memories of XT machines, but I do find using them today
 AK> to be so much more painful than I remember.

Yes! After persisting with a NECv20 based retro pc build I finally gave it up for a 286. The performance difference between even a 'fast' XT class machine and a slow 286 is really quite staggering. 

Also you get nice things like more IRQ lines and DMA channels. The number of IRQ lines is so horribly limited on an XT as between com ports, parallel port/printer interface & hard drive controller, there's not many left of the 7 available IRQ lines to use for anything else.

.... Two maggots were fighting in dead Earnest.

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