*updating* 8088's

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Tue Nov 20 19:38:59 CST 2007


Ensor wrote:
> Most "Turbo XT" motherboards which I saw topped out at 10MHz, though I 
> have a vague recollection of hearing about a manufacturer which produced 
> a 14MHz (or possibly even 16MHz) board and then had to quickly withdraw 
> it due to MAJOR instability problems.

I saw a 14MHz 8088 clone when I was in college in 1990.  It was 
perfectly stable, which makes sense if you consider it ran at a clock 
division of 1...
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