System Board Devices and Features
Figure | lists the | system | board devices and their features. The | |
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Microprocessor | – | Intel Pentium processor with the MMX | ||
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Ÿ 200 or 233 MHz
Ÿ32 KB
External | cache | – | 512 | KB | (write | back) |
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System | timers | 1 | Channel | 0: system | timer |
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| Channel | 1: refresh | generation |
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| Channel | 2: tone generator for speaker | ||||||||
ROM | subsystem | – | 128 | KB | by | 4 |
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RAM | subsystem | – | 32 | to | 256 | MB | (1 | MB | equals | 1,048,576 bytes) | |||
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| clock/calendar+ | 4 | K | byte | NVRAM | ||||||
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Video | subsystem | – | XGA | video | functions: |
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ŸUp to 65,536 colors on the TFT XGA (1024x768) LCD
ŸUp to 16,777,216 colors on an external monitor
See “Video Subsystem” on page
DMA controller | 1 | Seven | DMA | channels | (AT compatible:) |
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| Four | channels | and three |
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System Overview