[Web] My Pegasos / MorphOS review | ANN.lu |
Posted on 21-Jun-2003 02:25 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 58 comments View flat View list |
It has been two and half a month since I bought my Pegasos.
I used it almost every day and wrote a review that you can find
here.
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Posted by Kjetil on 21-Jun-2003 18:44 GMT | In reply to Comment 26 (corpse): Well the comment where not meant for you, it where meant for a newbie,
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PC chip-sets where a combination of the various bits of logic that made up the glue between the CPU, the memory , I/O etc and the basic on-board hardware e.g. RTC, Keyboard controller, UARTS etc in an AT. Modern chip-sets aren't that different but support newer,bigger,faster(TM)
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There where lots more I where kinking about when i wrote what it, think more of internal/external devices (PCI/ISA/VESA), like SCSI, Ethernet, and on-chip logic as well, floppy disk controller, serial controller, etc.
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"I do expect them to be remove now that we live in DOS free world,"
You'd be surprised how many still use DOS based windows systems or legacy DOS based applications for their businesses.
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You are right on this one it even surprising that you find even new hardware designed for DOS, mostly handtermnals and PDA's to be used as dumb clients for sales orders, big storage facilities, the terminal are commonly connected to telnet service, by using 803.11b.
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"way do I use PC as an example for Amiga custom chips well PC has always hard custom chips,"
Original PC's were made up of huge arrays of TTL logic circuits, integration of these into chip-sets came later.
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the first computers where mechanical,
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if any one like to lookup more you can find a page loaded with stuff like this.
<http://www.pccomputernotes.com/> |
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