I noticed someone mentioned in the RealDOOM thread "I have a 20 mhz-ish juko turbo xt" This intrigued me-- what sort of cards are in it?
One of the growing pains on XTs was that 1:1 ratio between CPU clock and bus speed. I assume this tended to keep the platform down to 10MHz and very occasionally 12, when at least 16MHz V20s seem to be available.
But on a broader basis, I'm curious if anyone has curated any lists of ISA cards that are more tolerant of 10 or even 12MHz operation. I feel like most "late 80s and beyond" cards might have been paired with a 10MHz turbo-XT or a 20MHz AT-or-higher machine with a 1/2 ISA bus multiplier, so they should handle 10MHz gracefully. OTOH, there were probably cards that were never designed beyond the original 5150 and 4.77MHz.
I'd assume that through improvements in process, and faster, cheaper logic families available, some of the newer cards, like most modern kits, would have a leg up on supporting higher clock speeds, but I could be wrong.
On a specific concern, I've always had trouble with my project machine getting above 8MHz. It fails with spurious NMIs in TOPBENCH, which is weird because the machine doesn't support parity or a FPU, either of which are the common cause of NMIs. The CPU and memory are both rated far above 8MHz, so I tend to suspect one of my cards is finicky. I'd theorize it might be the Realtek RTG3106 VGA card, since that's the one I can't easily remove or replace. I'll be trying one of the new-build TVGA9000 cards soon and see if that theory shakes out..
One of the growing pains on XTs was that 1:1 ratio between CPU clock and bus speed. I assume this tended to keep the platform down to 10MHz and very occasionally 12, when at least 16MHz V20s seem to be available.
But on a broader basis, I'm curious if anyone has curated any lists of ISA cards that are more tolerant of 10 or even 12MHz operation. I feel like most "late 80s and beyond" cards might have been paired with a 10MHz turbo-XT or a 20MHz AT-or-higher machine with a 1/2 ISA bus multiplier, so they should handle 10MHz gracefully. OTOH, there were probably cards that were never designed beyond the original 5150 and 4.77MHz.
I'd assume that through improvements in process, and faster, cheaper logic families available, some of the newer cards, like most modern kits, would have a leg up on supporting higher clock speeds, but I could be wrong.
On a specific concern, I've always had trouble with my project machine getting above 8MHz. It fails with spurious NMIs in TOPBENCH, which is weird because the machine doesn't support parity or a FPU, either of which are the common cause of NMIs. The CPU and memory are both rated far above 8MHz, so I tend to suspect one of my cards is finicky. I'd theorize it might be the Realtek RTG3106 VGA card, since that's the one I can't easily remove or replace. I'll be trying one of the new-build TVGA9000 cards soon and see if that theory shakes out..