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Webpage about early (PC/XT-to-Pentium) chip sets

mR_Slug

mR_Slug

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Hello everyone. I made a webpage about early chipsets. There doesn't seem to be that much information on pre-Pentium chipsets. What there is, is a bit fractured, little bit here, little bit there. Well except for bitsavers.org (Al Kossow, I believe, thank you), that was incredibly useful.

Hopefully this page will be somewhat useful. It should at least sort things out into some kinda order. I've labeled it as BETA because I keep finding little errors.

It also works in links and the linemode browser (with some caveats). So it should be useable on old systems. Tested in Mosaic 2.0 and Navigator 3.01.

I *may* have gone a little overboard on this one. Basically this is a request for comments.

http://108.59.254.117/~mR_Slug/chipset/chipsets.pl
 
This is a pretty ambitious endeavour. I attempted to consolidate some information on the vogonswiki a while back, but there are still a lot of holes. It would be really nice if somehow we could, track down the missing datasheets. I got pretty much everything I could find off of datasheet archive. I am personally interested in getting a complete set of datasheets for the OPTi, SiS and UMC chipsets...just because they're so common.
 
The pages on the vogons wiki were actually one of my starting points. Thanks. It is listed in the General Sources section. Assuming it hasn't been updated since about mid 2016, my page should contain All the chipsets listed there.

I've been through datasheet archive with a fine-tooth comb, they recently changed their interface to one that I find much harder to use. Datasheet360 is another one but that recently has started to have lots of dead links. The quality of some of the PDF's on both sites can be atrocious. Some look like a photocopy that was videotaped onto VHS, then captured and then compressed into a gif. You feel so spoiled when you find something on bitsavers. It's readable AND has searchable text.

Opti and SIS are not too bad. I think given time, someone will find the missing datasheets. UMC on the other hand, it's almost like it was a company that wanted to pretend it didn't exist. I have searched high and low for the UMC UM8881/UM8886 chipset.

I will upload what I have soon.

Are there any Chinese language datasheet sites? If so, is there anything different on then?
 
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