Well, shoot! I was just about to order another of your ISA SVGA boards.
Post by joe.herdler-/Hi Sergey,
Don't worry, I completely understand about how life takes so much
time. I know personally how this is as my wife and I are raising our
grandkids. I sneak a little time for my hobbies every day or so while the
kiddos are at school or asleep, but never more than a few moments at a time.
What I am thinking about in a mathematics accelerator is something that I
remember seeing back in the mid eighties just after PCs and XTs were
avaiiable. Once a user installed an 8087 math co-processor, if they needed
still more floating point power, there were *very *expensive boards that
were available (10,000 USD range) that could be installed that did nothing
but very fast floating point math. I cannot find much of anything with
Google about these. A professor of mine had one that with out it, a
particular statistical analysis of genetic characteristics (this was very
early "DNA fingerprinting" of plant species) took a week to run on his XT
with an 8087. WIth the math accelerator it took about a day.
My main love with computers is not for internet surfing, web design or
games, but good old fashioned command line use, programming and
mathematical analysis. When I was a student, I was an ace batch programmer!
:-)
Any way, just as an update, I have made excellent progress on both my
backplane and CPU card. The only snag so far is that the day before I
placed my Mouser order, they sold out of ISA card slot sockets, so I don't
know when I will be able to finish the board. The sockets are on back order
and will ship when they have them, but I do not know when that will be.
I would also love to have a memory board as well, but with the boards
that I have to complete, that can wait.
Best to you and yours,
Joe
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