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The 8Mhz IBM PC AT 5170
I just added my first IBM PC AT "Rev 3" machine configuration to the list of IBM PC Machine Configurations, and not surprisingly, the new machine fails to boot.
I call it "Rev 3" because it uses the 3rd ROM BIOS that IBM released for the PC AT, a revision that is supposed to include support for 3.5-inch 1.44Mb diskettes -- which would be great, because I have a number of 1.44Mb diskette images it would be nice to be able to read in a PCjs machine.
Machines with this BIOS also ran at 8Mhz, so I've bumped the CPU speed up to 8,000,000 cycles/second. It'll be interesting to see whether this BIOS also increased any of its hard-coded timing delay-loops as a result.
Anyway, when I enabled ChipSet I/O port messages in the Debugger:
m chipset on
m port on
I can see that the BIOS Power-On Self Test (POST) progresses nicely until it starts generating lots of port 0x61 activity:
chipset.inPort(0x0061,8042_RWREG): 0x30 at F000:05A8
chipset.inPort(0x0061,8042_RWREG): 0x20 at F000:05AE
I know what I'm going to be doing this afternoon now.
@jeffpar
October 13, 2014