At 11:09 AM 03/03/99 -0600, you wrote:
>I may have my terms wrong. If so, sorry about that. What is important
>is that in very old PCs of the 8086/8088 vintage, there are two
>different slot widths. There are also proprietory power supply
>connectors to the motherboard that crop up at a number of levels after
>that. When buying a case to build in, one should always open the case
>to check out those two situations or he could end up with wasted
>expense.
Well, I might well run into the power supply problem but in point of truth
there was no case in evidence that would fit this very large 386 MB.
Indeed, I've not seen one that large, I'd likely have to find another of
the computers this motherboard came from.
I'll just build it onto something!
>
>My first PC was a locally built clone XT (with both 8 bit and 16 bit bus
>slots. The 286 motherboard that I upgraded to wouldn't fit either the
>motherboard mounts or the slot widths. From that point on my
>understanding was that XT=8088 and AT=8086,80286,80386, etc., and that
>AT became the standard for slot width. A Daiwo XT and an IBM PC (the
>original PC) gave me the same problems as my orginal XT. I always
>thought that the difference was between 8088 and 8086, and that the 8086
>was not an XT. I have been wrong before, and I may be wrong here. If
>so once again, sorry about that. What is important is that there is an
>incompatable difference between some older cases and upgrade parts. By
>the way the XT keyboard will not work on an AT either, although some
>keyboards can be switched between XT and AT and so made to work with
>either one.
>
>> Excuse me? I have 2 XTs and I can use both there cases for any
>> 386/486/Pentium that has an AT MB. I thought this was a standard?
>> Now my Pentium is sitting in an ATX case for Pentium Pro and P3.
>> (P2 is a Pentium Pro MMX, and is therefor slower on 16-bit operations then
>> even a 486 on some occasions)
>> //Bernie
>End
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