System Board Devices and Features

Figure 1-2

lists the

system

board devices and their features. The

IBM Personal System/2 Hardware Interface Technical Reference

describes

devices

common

to

PS/2

products

by

type

number.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Device

 

Type

Features

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Microprocessor

Intel

Pentium

processor with

the

MMX

 

 

 

 

 

technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

233 MHz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intel

Pentium II

processor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

233 or

266

 

MHz

 

 

 

 

 

 

External

cache

512

KB

(write

 

back)

 

 

 

 

 

System

timers

1

Channel

0: system

timer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Channel

1: refresh

generation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Channel

2: tone generator for speaker

 

ROM

subsystem

128

KB

by

4

banks

(1 KB equals

1024

bytes)

RAM

subsystem

32

to

160

MB

(1

MB

equals

1,048,576 bytes)

CMOS

RAM

 

128 bytes CMOS RAM with real-time

 

 

 

 

subsystem

 

clock/calendar+ 4

KB

NVRAM

 

 

 

 

EEPROM

 

1

K bits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

subsystem

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video

subsystem

XGA

video

functions:

 

 

 

 

 

Up to 65,536 colors on the TFT XGA (1024x768) LCD and HPA XGA (1024 x 768).

Up to 16,777,216 colors on an external monitor

See “Video Subsystem” on page 3-2 for more details on the video subsystem.

DMA controller

1

Seven

DMA

channels

(AT compatible:)

 

 

Four

8-bit

channels

and three 16-bit channels

Figure 1-2 (Part 1 of 2). System Board Devices and Features

System Overview 1-3

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IBM 600 manual System Board Devices and Features, Lists System Board devices and their features, Describes Devices

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