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This is absolutely amazing and beautiful work. Congratulations to Alexandru! BTW can someone clarify what's the benefits of building the computer as an ISA boa

by mahoro 5y ago

This is absolutely amazing and beautiful work. Congratulations to Alexandru! BTW can someone clarify what's the benefits of building the computer as an ISA board?

oso2k 5y ago
ISA boards (main, backplane and/or add-on) are relatively simple to design and interface. Not having to worry about north bridge and south bridge chips, PnP, PCI, AGP, VLB, EISA, MCA, etc. makes designs simpler. Many of the period correct sound card chips, VGA chips, Ethernet chips, serial and parallel chips are still available to design around. https://github.com/skiselev/isa8_backplane https://github.com/skiselev/isa8_backplane
- mahoro 5y ago
  Thank you
jabl 5y ago
Probably because he previously designed an ISA backplane to plug it into: https://alexandrugroza.ro/microelectronics/system-design/isa-backplane/index.html https://alexandrugroza.ro/microelectronics/system-design/isa...
- mahoro 5y ago
  This makes the project even more mindblowing, wow