Monthly Archives: November 2018

A Piece of History

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Michal Necasek

A few months ago I received a well-used but not abused copy of Rakesh K. Agarwal’s book 80×86 Architecture and Programming (Volume II): Architecture Reference, published by Prentice Hall in 1991. This is an unusually well-informed book, no doubt because … Continue reading →

Posted in 386, Books, Cyrix, Intel, PC architecture, PC history | 6 Comments

DiskOnChip

Posted on November 6, 2018 by Michal Necasek

This is a guest post by Nils aka stecdose What Is DOC? I would like to present a „storage card“ for the XT bus (8-bit ISA bus) that I built from scrap parts. It is based on a small device … Continue reading →

Posted in Hardware Hacks, PC hardware | 11 Comments