The early days of home computing were quite a jungle of different standards and convoluted solutions to make one piece of hardware work on as many different platforms as possible. IBM’s PC was an ...

One of the reasons the IBM PC platform became the dominant standard for desktop PCs back in the mid-1980s was its open hardware design, based around what would later be called the ISA bus. Any ...

I've been asked to look into what it takes to get a relatively modern system with 8 usable ISA slots, onboard sound/video and possibly NIC, and a decent CPU.<P> From what I've been able to determine, ...

IBM faced off against the Gang of Nine in the battle of the PC buses during the 1980s and 1990s and Big Blue eventually gave in. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times for IBM, the ...

Systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), where the processors and caches are a small part of the chip, are becoming ubiquitous. Thus many more companies today are making chips that include processors than in the ...

In a nutshell: CPU Galaxy is reportedly preparing to host a challenge in which participants must get Doom to run at an average of 25 frames per second using an ISA card. That is no easy task but at ...