-=> Mro wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-
> Doesn't matter - the IO card was typically an 8 bit ISA card, which would
> fit in an 8088. Remember, back then, nothing was onboard!
Mr> well if you guys say so. i just never heard of such a thing.
Really? I've probably still got some old serial cards from those days kicking
around! Back then, you ended up filling most of the slots in the PC, by the
time you added everything you needed.
Display adapter
Hard disk controller
Floppy disk controller
Serial card *
Parallel card *
Network card (if running a LAN)
Memory expansion card (early XTs often had 256k or less RAM on the
otherboard).
* Later on, you could get a "multi I/O card", which had serial and parallel
ports on the one card.
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